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Niphon Works Building At Blakenhall, Wolverhampton (geograph 2153711)
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Niphon may refer to: * Japan (Nippon, Nihon) or the main island Honshū * Patriarch Nephon I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1310–1314 * Patriarch Niphon of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1366–1385 * Niphon of Kafsokalyvia (1316–1411), Greek Orthodox saint and hermit * Patriarch Nephon II of Constantinople (Saint Niphon), Ecumenical Patriarch in 1486–1488, 1497–1498 and 1502 * USS ''Niphon'' (1863), a steam ship of Union Navy in the American Civil War * ''Niphon spinosus'' a species of grouper called the Ara ARA may refer to: Media and the arts * American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences * '' Artistička Radna Akcija'', compilation album released in former Yugoslavia * Associate of the Royal Academy, denoting membership in the British Royal Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honshū
, historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean to the south and east. It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java. Honshu had a population of 104 million , constituting 81.3% of the entire population of Japan, and is mostly concentrated in the coastal areas and plains. Approximately 30% of the total population resides in the Greater Tokyo Area on the Kantō Plain. As the historical center of Japanese cultural and political power, the island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyōto, Nara and Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms part of the Taiheiyō Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarch Nephon I Of Constantinople
Nephon I or Niphon of Cyzicus ( el, Νήφων; ? – after 1314) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1310 to 1314. From Veria, Greece. Nicephorus Gregoras claimed Nephon to be illiterate, a lover of luxury, and ill-suited for the position. Due to his willingness to compromise, during his time as patriarch the Arsenite Schism Arsenios Autoreianos (Latinized as Arsenius Autorianus) ( el, Ἀρσένιος Ἀυτωρειανός), ( 30 September 1273), List of Constantinople patriarchs, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, lived about the middle of the 13th century. ... was healed within the Byzantine Church. Nephon abdicated the throne after four years. References 13th-century births 14th-century deaths People from Veria 14th-century patriarchs of Constantinople Bishops of Cyzicus {{EasternOrthodoxy-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niphon Of Kafsokalyvia
Niphon of Kafsokalyvia or Niphon Kausokalybites ( el, Όσιος Νήφων Καυσοκαλυβίτης, 1316–1411) was a Greeks, Greek Christian Orthodox saint and monk. He is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), June 14.Great Synaxarium, Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Νήφων ὁ Καυσοκαλυβίτης'' 14 Ιουνίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Early life A Byzantine Greeks, Greek, Niphon was born in the village of Lukovë, Himarë municipality, that time part of the Despotate of Epirus (modern south Albania). From an early age he went to the monastery of Geromerion (near Filiates) where he became a hesychasm, hesychast. Soon after he moved to the nearby monastery of Mesopotamon, where he became a monk. Monastic life Niphon went to the monastic state of Mount Athos sometime after 1335, where he dedicated himself to asceticism, under the guidance of the monastic Elders, Neilos Erichiotes, Theognostos and Maxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarch Nephon II Of Constantinople
Nephon II or Nifon II, ( el, ), (? – 11 August 1508), born ''Nicholas'', was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times: from 1486 to 1488, from 1497 to 1498 and for a short time in 1502. He is honored as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and his feast day is August 11.or August 24 according to the Gregorian Calendar Life He was born in the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece to a Greek mother and an Albanian father. He was tonsured a monk at Epidaurus, taking the religious name of ''Nephon''. He was involved in calligraphy and copying manuscripts. He then followed a monk named Zacharias and settled in the Monastery of the Theotokos in Ohrid. When Zacharias was elected Archbishop of Ohrid, Nephon went to Mount Athos and there he was ordained a hieromonk. In 1482 he was elected Metropolitan of Thessaloniki and at the end of 1486 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople, supported by the wealthy Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Călugărul, who thus inaugurated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Niphon (1863)
USS ''Niphon'' was a steam operated vessel acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. ''Niphon'', a wooden and iron screw steamer launched at Boston, Massachusetts, in February 1863, delivered to the Navy at Boston on 22 April 1863; and commissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 24 April 1863, Acting Ensign Joseph B. Breck in command; and was formally purchased 9 May 1863. Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockade Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, ''Niphon'' was first stationed off Fort Fisher, North Carolina, which protected Wilmington, North Carolina, from attack by sea. She captured the blockade runner ''Banshee'' at New Inlet, North Carolina on 29 July 1863. On 18 August she chased the steamer ''Hebe'', carrying drugs, clothing, coffee, and provisions for the Confederacy, and forced the blockade runner aground north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niphon Spinosus
The ara (''Niphon spinosus''), otherwise known as the saw-edged perch or the Dageumbari (다금바리) is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the monospecific genus ''Niphon'' which is in the monotypic tribe of the Niphonini which is part of the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean from Japan south to the Philippines where it inhabits rock reefs and inshore waters with rocky sea beds, This species can grow up to in total length. The tribe Niphonini is the sister to the other four tribes of Epinephelinae and it has been posited that it represents a basal lineage within this subfamily. The ara was first formally described in 1828 by Georges Cuvier in the ''Histoire naturelle des poissons'' which he co-authored with Achille Valenciennes, the type locality was given as the Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
