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Albans may refer to: * Italic Albans, ancient people in the region of Latium, Italy * Caucasian Albans, inhabitants of ancient Caucasian Albania * Albans Wood Albans Wood is a local nature reserve in Watford in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Watford Borough Council. The site is ancient semi-natural woodland. It is mainly oak with other trees including beech, horse chestnut and sweet che ..., a nature reserve in Watford, Hertfordshire (UK) * Albans (fictional people), thus named in ''The Alban Quest'' (1998) See also * St. Albans (other) * Albanians (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italic Albans
The Albans were Latins from the ancient city of Alba Longa, southeast of Rome. Some of Rome's prominent patrician families such as the Julii, Servilii, Quinctii, Geganii, Curiatii and Cloelii were of Alban descent. Origins According to Roman mythology, Ascanius, son of Trojan War hero Aeneas, founded the Alban tribe when he settled in Alba Longa around 1152 BC. Literary sources suggest the city’s name is derived from the white (''alba'') sow Aeneas saw when arriving in Latium. Based on limited archaeological evidence, experts say the Alban tribe inhabited the long ridge between the modern-day Lake Albano and Monte Cavo. Power in Latium At its height, the Albans and the city of Alba Longa exerted great power and influence over Latium. In particular, literary sources such as Pliny the Elder’s '' Historia Naturalis'' state that Alba Longa headed a league of city-states in Latium, possibly called ''Prisci Latini''. Most of these sources tend to vary regarding the political st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Albans
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among the Udi people, who regard themselves as descended from the inhabitants of Caucasian Albania. However, its original endonym is unknown.Robert H. Hewsen. "Ethno-History and the Armenian Influence upon the Caucasian Albanians", in: Samuelian, Thomas J. (Ed.), ''Classical Armenian Culture. Influences and Creativity''. Chicago: 1982, pp. 27-40. Bosworth, Clifford E.br>Arran ''Encyclopædia Iranica''. The name Albania is derived from the Ancient Greek name and Latin .James Stuart Olson. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. The prefix "Caucasian" is used purely to avoid confusion with modern Albania of the Balkans, which has no known geographical or historical connections to Caucasian Albania. Little is known of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albans Wood
Albans Wood is a local nature reserve in Watford in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Watford Borough Council. The site is ancient semi-natural woodland. It is mainly oak with other trees including beech, horse chestnut and sweet chestnut. There are mammals such as muntjac deer and noctule bats, butterflies including purple hairstreak and speckled wood, and birds such as great spotted woodpecker The great spotted woodpecker (''Dendrocopos major'') is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found acros ...s and nuthatches. There is access from Sheepcot Lane. References External links Albans Wood, Watford Borough Council {{Authority control Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire Watford Forests and woodlands of Hertfordshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albans (fictional People)
''The Farfarers: Before the Norse'' is a non-fiction book by Farley Mowat, setting out a theory about pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Mowat's thesis is that before the Vikings, North America was discovered and settled by Europeans from Orkney. They reached Canada after a generation-spanning migration that used Iceland and Greenland as 'stepping stones'. Mowat's ideas are controversial and have been accused of being over-speculative. The book has been published in the UK as ''The Alban Quest''. The 'Albans' Mowat's premise is that Iceland, Greenland and North America were visited and settled before the Vikings by Europeans from the northern British Isles. Mowat refers to these people as ''Albans'', after the ancestral name for the British Isles, and maintains that the Albans were descendants of the original Neolithic peoples of Britain displaced by the Celts. He argues that these peoples were pushed to the fringes of north-western Europe, in Northern Scotland, Orkney and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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