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Maur may refer to: * St Maurus * Maur, India * Maur, Switzerland *Maur, the Black Dragon in '' The Hero and the Crown'' by Robin McKinley * Mangaung Regiment, an infantry regiment of the South African Army *Mauri/Moors See also *Auf der Maur (surname) *Maurus (other) * Saint-Maur (other) * St. Maur (other) *Von Maur Von Maur, Inc. ( ) is an American department store chain based in Davenport, Iowa. Founded in 1872, the chain operates over 36 locations across the United States, primarily in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. History Beginnings In 1872 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Maurus
Maurus, OSB (; ) (512–584) was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic monk best known as the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate (religion), oblate, offered to the monastery by his noble Rome, Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. Four stories involving Maurus recounted by Gregory formed a pattern for the ideal formation of a Benedictine monk. The most famous of these involved Maurus's rescue of Saint Placidus, Placidus, a younger boy offered to Benedict at the same time as Maurus. The incident has been reproduced in many medieval and Renaissance paintings. Maurus is venerated on January 15 in the 2001 Roman Martyrology and on the same date along with Placid in the ''Proper Masses for the Use of the Benedictine Confederation''. Legendary life of Saint Maurus A long ''Life of St. Maurus'' appeared in the late 9th century, supposedly composed by one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maur, India
Maur is a sub-town of Bathinda City and a municipal council in Bathinda district in the Indian state of Punjab.It has a class II Municipal committee, located on the Bathinda- Delhi railway line, and the Bathinda-Mohali (Ajitgarh) state highway (no. 12-A). This State Highway has now been upgraded to National Highway NH 148B (Bathinda-Kotputli, Jaipur National Highway). Maur Mandi is about 35 km from Bathinda city. History The suburb town is said to have been founded by one Maur, a Jat of Mann sub caste. There exists a Gurudwara which is associated with the visit of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur, the ninth Guru of the Sikhs. It is said that the guru stayed here for a few days and got rid the villagers of a ghost. A fair is held here one very Amavas. The town is known for the manufacture of agricultural items. Government of Punjab has upgraded Maur from the status of sub-tehsil to Sub-Divisional headquarters in the year 2013. This is the fourth sub-division of Bathinda district, Punjab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maur, Switzerland
Maur is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History Maur is first mentioned between 874 and 887 as ''de Mure''. Geography Maur has an area of . Of this area, 52.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 26.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 20.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 14.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (5.5%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0% of the area. 17% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The municipality is located on the south-west shore of the Greifensee. It includes the village of Maur and the settlements of Aesch, Scheuren (Forch), Binz, Ebmatingen and Uessikon. Economy For a long time, the village was cut off from the major traffic routes. Without railways and without water-ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hero And The Crown
''The Hero and the Crown'' is a fantasy novel written by Robin McKinley and published by Greenwillow Books in 1984. It is the winner of the 1985 Newbery Medal award. This story focuses on "Aerin Dragon-Killer", also known as "Aerin Firehair", the heroine who is introduced as a legendary character in ''The Blue Sword''. The book narrates Aerin's evolution from the shy, retiring daughter of the King of Damar to the heroic queen who protects her people from the demonic Northerners. Plot summary Part one Aerin is the only child of Arlbeth, king of Damar, and his second wife. Aerin inherits her mother's pale skin and fiery red hair, setting her apart from all other Damarians and causing her to be feared and ostracized. Her particular nemesis at court is Galanna, a beautiful but vain young woman, who spread rumors that Aerin's mother was a witch and that Aerin is illegitimate. Galanna taunts Aerin for having failed to develop the Gift, known as ''kelar'', an ability to use magic that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangaung Regiment
The Mangaung Regiment (formerly Regiment Bloemspruit) is a reserve infantry regiment of the South African Army. History Origin In 1964, Regiment Bloemspruit with its HQ in Bloemfontein, was established on 1 January as the first Citizen Force Infantry Regiment in the then Orange Free State. The total strength of the Regiment at that stage was 15 members. The then Minister of Defence and later State President, the late Mr J.J. (Jim) Fouché, was actively involved in the establishment of the Regiment. Colours The Regimental Colour was presented to the regiment by the then State President Mr J.J. Fouché On 29 January 1981, the Freedom of the City was conferred on the regiment by the City Council of Bloemfontein, which the unit exercised for the first time on 6 March 1982. The regiment served in the South African Border War in the 1970s and 1980s. Amalgamation On 1 April 1997, Regiment Louw Wepener/Oos Vrystaat, Regiment Louw Wepener (Bethlehem), Regiment De Wet (Kroonstad) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauri
Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for the Berber population of Mauretania, located in the west side of North Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, in the North of present-day Morocco and north western Algeria. Name ''Mauri'' (Μαῦροι) by Strabo, who wrote in the early 1st century, as the native name, which was also adopted into Latin, while he cites the Greek name for the same people as ''Maurusii'' (Μαυρούσιοι). The name ''Mauri'' as a tribal confederation or generic ethnic designator thus seems to roughly correspond to the people known as Numidians in earlier ethnography; both terms presumably group early Berber-speaking populations (the earliest Libyco-Berber epigraph dates to about the third century BC). Roman period In 44 AD, the Roman Empire incorporated the region as the province of Mauretania, later divided into Mauretania Caesariensis and Maureta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moors
The term Moor is an Endonym and exonym, exonym used in European languages to designate the Muslims, Muslim populations of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Iberian Peninsula (particularly al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a single, distinct or Ethnonym, self-defined people. Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, Berbers, and Islam in Europe, Muslim Europeans. The term has been used in a broader sense to refer to Muslims in general,Menocal, María Rosa (2002). ''Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain''. Little, Brown, & Co. , p. 241 especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in al-Andalus or North Africa. The 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' observed that the term had "no real ethnological value." The word has racial connotations and it has fallen out of fashion among scholars since the mid-20th century. The word is also used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auf Der Maur
Auf der Maur is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Melissa Auf der Maur (born 1972), Canadian rock musician **Auf der Maur (album), ''Auf der Maur'' (album), debut album of Melissa Auf der Maur *Nick Auf der Maur (1942–1998), Canadian journalist and politician See also * Maur (other) {{surname, Auf der Maur German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurus (other)
Maurus is a Latin given name. It can refer to: Persons ;Saints * Saint Maurus of Parentium (3rd century), the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč * Saint Maurus (c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia * Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856) * Saint Maurus of Pécs, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075) ;Others * Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes called Maurus Servius in medieval manuscripts * Manfred Maurus (died 2008), German scientist * (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher * Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare * Sylvester Maurus (1619-1687), Italian Jesuit theologian * Kuber (Maurus the Kuber), brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of Kubrat Kaghan of Patria Onoguria * Maurus, religious name of secret agent monk Alexander Horn Other uses *The inhabitants of Mauretania, ancient kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Maur (other)
Saint-Maur may refer to several communes in France: * Saint-Maur, Cher, in the Cher ''département'' *Saint-Maur, Gers, in the Gers ''département'' * Saint-Maur, Indre, in the Indre ''département'' *Saint-Maur, Jura, in the Jura ''département'' * Saint-Maur, Oise, in the Oise ''département'' *Saint-Maur-des-Bois, in the Manche ''département'' *Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, in the Val-de-Marne ''département'' *Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir (, literally ''Saint-Maur on the Loir'') is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department The following is a list of the 363 communes of ..., in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'' See also * St. Maur (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
