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Hace 2 días · Taken captive, Bayezid died within a year. Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its dynasty was founded by a prince (bey), Osman, after the Mongols defeated the Seljuqs at the end of the 13th century. The empire disintegrated after World War I.
Hace 4 días · CASTLE. The castle was built for the king by Robert d'Oilly in 1071, (fn. 1) and was owned by the Crown until 1611. It was then sold to two speculators, Francis James and Robert Younglove of London, (fn. 2) who in 1613 sold it to Christ Church, (fn. 3) already owners of the site of St. George's-in-the-Castle.
Hace 5 días · In the early 12th century the south-west corner of the town, bounded by Church Street on the north and Church Walk on the south, Head Street on the east, and the town wall on the west, formed the bishop's soke. It contained the church of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, an otherwise unrecorded chapel of St. Andrew, and the bishop's own house, and ...
Hace 3 días · The History of Yuan, vol 121 (1370) Retreating southeast to Baljuna, an unidentified lake or river, Temüjin waited for his scattered forces to regroup: Bo'orchu had lost his horse and was forced to flee on foot, while Temüjin's badly wounded son Ögedei had been transported and tended to by Borokhula, a leading warrior. Temüjin called in every possible ally and swore a famous oath of ...
Hace 1 día · Late-19th and early-20th-century plays such as George Ade’s The Sultan of Sulu (1902), Joseph Jarrow’s The Queen of Chinatown (1899), and David Belasco’s Madame Butterfly (1900) not only used yellowface acting but also expressed anxieties about interracial interactions and the potential for racial contamination produced by U.S. imperialism and Chinese immigration.
Hace 5 días · Notable 18th-century buildings were the Bartholomew Room and the vicarage house. (fn. 13) The Grange in Acre End Street, the earliest brick house in Eynsham, was built as a long range, comprising a house, malthouse, and granary, later acquiring at the rear a corn mill. In the 19th century the west end of the range was altered and raised.
Hace 4 días · Choose Reference entries. Cambridge Histories Online cover 14 subject areas including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy and Religion. Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection . To see the reference books included, choose ‘Browse & search books’ in the left hand column.
