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Merovingian The Merovingians (/ˌmɛroʊˈvɪndʒiən/) were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia ![]() Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century. Their territory largely corresponded to ancient Gaul ![]() Gaul as well as the Roman provinces of Raetia, Germania Superior ![]() Germania Superior and the southern part of Germania. Childeric I ![]() Childeric I (c [...More...] | "Merovingian" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Visigoths The Visigoths Visigoths (UK: /ˈvɪzɪˌɡɒθs/; US: /ˈvɪzɪˌɡɑːθs/; Latin: Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi; Italian: Visigoti) were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths.[2] These tribes flourished and spread throughout the late Roman Empire ![]() Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, or what is known as the Migration Period [...More...] | "Visigoths" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Nicene Creed The Nicene Creed ![]() Creed (Greek: Σύμβολον τῆς Νικαίας or, τῆς πίστεως, Latin: Symbolum Nicaenum) is a statement of belief widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene /ˈnaɪsiːn/ because it was originally adopted in the city of Nicaea (present day İznik, Turkey) by the First Council of Nicaea ![]() First Council of Nicaea in 325.[1] In 381, it was amended at the First Council of Constantinople, and the amended form is referred to as the Nicene or the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed. The Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian churches use this profession of faith with the verbs in the original plural ("we believe") form, but the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches convert those verbs to the singular ("I believe") [...More...] | "Nicene Creed" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Old English Old English ![]() Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon,[2] is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland ![]() Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain ![]() Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English ![]() Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest ![]() Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, as the language of the upper classes by Anglo-Norman, a relative of French [...More...] | "Old English" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders ![]() Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts [...More...] | "Flinders Petrie" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Medieval Latin Medieval Latin ![]() Latin was the form of Latin ![]() Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange, as the liturgical language of Chalcedonian Christianity[dubious – discuss] and the Roman Catholic Church, and as a language of science, literature, law, and administration. Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors, medieval Latin ![]() Latin should not be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin. There is no real consensus on the exact boundary where Late Latin ![]() Latin ends and medieval Latin ![]() Latin begins [...More...] | "Medieval Latin" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Loire The Loire ![]() Loire (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ]; Occitan: Léger; Breton: Liger) is the longest river in France ![]() France and the 171st longest in the world.[3] With a length of 1,012 kilometres (629 mi), it drains an area of 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), or more than a fifth of France's land area,[1] while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the highlands of the southeastern quarter of the Massif Central in the Cévennes ![]() Cévennes range (in the department of Ardèche) at 1,350 m (4,430 ft) near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers ![]() Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours ![]() Tours and Nantes ![]() Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay ![]() Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at Saint-Nazaire [...More...] | "Loire" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Ptolemy Claudius ![]() Claudius Ptolemy ![]() Ptolemy (/ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos [kláwdios ptolɛmɛ́ːos]; Latin: Claudius ![]() Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. 170)[2] was a Greco-Roman[3] mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.[4][5] He lived in the city of Alexandria ![]() Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship.[6] The 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes gave his birthplace as the prominent Greek city Ptolemais Hermiou ![]() Ptolemais Hermiou (Greek: Πτολεμαΐς ‘Ερμείου) in the Thebaid ![]() Thebaid (Greek: Θηβαΐδα [Θηβαΐς]) [...More...] | "Ptolemy" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Rhine The Rhine ![]() Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin,[1] Dutch: Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden ![]() Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland ![]() Rhineland and the Netherlands ![]() Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea. The largest city on the Rhine ![]() Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people [...More...] | "Rhine" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Pope Stephen II Pope ![]() Pope Stephen II (Latin: Stephanus II (or III); 714-26 April 757[1] a Roman aristocrat[2] was Pope ![]() Pope from 26 March 752 to his death in 757. He succeeded Pope Zachary following the death of Pope-elect Stephen (sometimes called Stephen II). Stephen II marks the historical delineation between the Byzantine Papacy ![]() Byzantine Papacy and the Frankish Papacy. The safety of Rome ![]() Rome was facing invasion by the Kingdom of the Lombards. Pope ![]() Pope Stephen II traveled all the way to Paris ![]() Paris to seek assistance against the Lombard threat from Pepin the Short. Pepin had been anointed a first time in 751 in Soissons by Boniface, archbishop of Mainz, but named his price [...More...] | "Pope Stephen II" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Syagrius Syagrius ![]() Syagrius (430 – 486[1] or 487) was the last Roman military commander of a Roman rump state in northern Gaul, now called the Kingdom of Soissons. Gregory of Tours ![]() Gregory of Tours referred to him as King of the Romans. Syagrius's defeat by king Clovis I ![]() Clovis I of the Franks is considered the end of Western Roman rule outside of Italy. He inherited his position from his father, Aegidius,[2] the last Roman magister militum per Gallias. Syagrius ![]() Syagrius preserved his father's territory between the Somme and the Loire ![]() Loire around Soissons Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the Western Empire, a domain Gregory of Tours ![]() Gregory of Tours called the "Kingdom" of Soissons [...More...] | "Syagrius" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Battle Of Tolbiac Decisive Frankish victoryEnd of Alamannic autonomyBelligerentsFranks AlemanniCommanders and leadersSigobert the Lame Clovis I Gibuld †StrengthUnknown UnknownCasualties and lossesvery heavy heavyv t eCampaigns of Clovis ISoissons Frankish-Thuringian Tolbiac Strasbourg Dijon VouilléBattle of Tolbiac. Fresco at the Panthéon ![]() Panthéon (Paris) by Joseph Blanc, c. 1881.The Battle of Tolbiac ![]() Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks, who were fighting under Clovis I, and the Alamanni, whose leader is not known. The date of the battle has traditionally been given as 496, though other accounts suggest it may either have been fought earlier, in the 480s or early 490s, or later, in 506. The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tolbiacum", is usually given as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia, about 60 km east of what is now the German-Belgian frontier [...More...] | "Battle Of Tolbiac" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Christianity Christianity[note 1] is an Abrahamic monotheistic[1] religion based on the life, teachings, and miracles of Jesus ![]() Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians ![]() Christians as the Christ, or "Messiah", who is the focal point of the Christian ![]() Christian faiths [...More...] | "Christianity" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Monnaie De Paris 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] ( listen)) is the capital and most populous city in France, with an administrative-limits area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and an official population of 2,206,488 (2015).[5] The city is a commune and department, and the heart of the 12,012-square-kilometre (4,638-square-mile) Île-de-France region (colloquially known as the 'Paris Region'), whose 2016 population of 12,142,802 represented roughly 18 percent of the population of France.[6] Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts [...More...] | "Monnaie De Paris" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Burgundy (region) Burgundy ![]() Burgundy (French: Bourgogne, IPA: [buʁɡɔɲ] ( listen)) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France [...More...] | "Burgundy (region)" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Germania Germania ![]() Germania (/dʒərˈmeɪniə/; Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaː.ni.a]) was the Roman term for the geographical region in north-central Europe inhabited mainly by Germanic peoples. It extended from the Danube ![]() Danube in the south to the Baltic Sea, and from the Rhine ![]() Rhine in the west to the Vistula. The Roman portions formed two provinces of the Empire, Germania Inferior ![]() Germania Inferior to the north (present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and western Germany), and Germania Superior ![]() Germania Superior to the south (Switzerland, southwestern Germany, and eastern France). Germania ![]() Germania was inhabited mostly by Germanic tribes, but also Celts, Balts, Scythians ![]() Scythians and later on Early Slavs. The population mix changed over time by assimilation, and especially by migration [...More...] | "Germania" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |