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Hace 1 día · Influenced. Post-Gothic, Gothic Revival architecture, Baroque Gothic. Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. [1] It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by ...
Hace 1 día · The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.
Hace 1 día · The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire that existed between 1516 and 1830. Founded by the corsair brothers Aruj and Khayr ad-Din Barbarossa, the Regency was an important pirate base, notorious for its Barbary corsairs who were involved in numerous armed conflicts with the European powers. Algiers ...
Hace 1 día · The later Middle Ages saw words for these practitioners of harmful magical acts appear in various European languages: sorcière in French, Hexe in German, strega in Italian, and bruja in Spanish. The English term for malevolent practitioners of magic, witch, derived from the earlier Old English term wicce.
Hace 1 día · Middle Ages. In the immediate aftermath of the Harrying of the North in 1070, survivors were forced to resort to cannibalism to avoid starvation in the resulting famine. Crusaders were reported to have practised cannibalism during the sieges of Antioch and of Ma'arra in 1097–1098.
Hace 1 día · The Egyptian pharaoh and unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt was carried off and then killed by a hippopotamus. [2] [3] Draco of Athens. c. 620 BC. The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece.
Hace 1 día · Late Middle Ages and Ottoman period The earliest mention of the name appears in an early 14th-century Arab map, in which the Haemus Mountains are referred to as Balkan . [19] The first attested time the name "Balkan" was used in the West for the mountain range in Bulgaria was in a letter sent in 1490 to Pope Innocent VIII by Buonaccorsi Callimaco , an Italian humanist, writer and diplomat. [20]
