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Miriam Astruc
Miriam Astruc, also spelled Myriam Astruc, (born 12 November 1904 – 8 April 1963) was a French archaeologist who specialized in the study of the Phoenician-Punic people's presence in Spain. Biography Miriam Astruc was born in Bordeaux, France, into a Jewish banking family. From 1927 to 1932, Astruc studied Oriental Archaeology and History of the alphabet, Semitic epigraphy in Paris at the École du Louvre under René Dussaud. Career She went to Spain for the first time as a student at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibérique with a scholarship from the French government. During the academic years 1931–32, 1932–33 and 1933–34 she worked as an assistant at the School of Advanced Hispanic Studies in Madrid, Spain (Casa de Velázquez, Casa de Velázquez) and began her research on the Punic people, Punians with Luis Siret in the necropolis of Villaricos in the province of Almería. In 1932, together with Pelayo Quintero, she took part in excavations near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ''"Bordelais"'' (masculine) or ''"Bordelaises"'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 260,958 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , With its 27 suburban municipalities it forms the Bordeaux Metropolis, in charge of metropolitan issues. With a population of 814,049 at the Jan. 2019 census. it is the fifth most populated in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille and ahead of Toulouse. Together with its suburbs and exurbs, except satellite cities of Arcachon and Libourne, the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,363,711 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
