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1104 - Events. September 3 - St. Cuthbert reburied in the Durham Cathedral The Venice Arsenal, is founded in Venice. Alfonso I of Aragon becomes King of Aragon and Navarre. Historian Guibert of Nogent becomes abbot of Notre Dame de Nogent. Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Acre. Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Harran; Tancred becomes regent. Kilij Arslan I, Sultan of Rüm, starts a war with the Danishmend ...

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Harran, also known as Carrhae, is an archeological site in present day southeastern Turkey, 24 miles (39 kilometers) southeast of Sanli Urfa. In its prime, it controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish. This location gave Harran strategic value from an early date. It is frequently mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions as early as the time of Tiglath-Pileser I, about 1100 BC, under the name Harranu, or "Road"( Akkadian harrānu, road, path, journey ). After the Shupiluliuma-Shattiwazza treaty, Harran was burned by a Hittite army under Piyashshili ...

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Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. Vézelay - The Abbey of Vézelay. In the 9th century, the Benedictine abbey of Vézelay was founded, as many abbeys were, on land that had been a late Roman villa, of Vercellus (Vercelle becoming Vézelay). The villa had passed into the hands of the Carolingians and devolved to a Carolingian count, Girart, of Rousillon. His two convents were looted and dispersed by Moorish raiding parties ...

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The Battle of Harran took place on May 7, 1104 between the Crusader states of the Principality of Antioch and the County of Edessa, and the Seljuk Turks. It was the first major battle against the newfound Crusader states in the aftermath of the First Crusade. In 1104, while the Seljuks were harassing the borders of the County of Edessa, count Baldwin II sought help from Bohemond I of Antioch and Tancred, Prince of Galilee. Bohemond and Tancred marched north from Antioch to Edessa to join with Baldwin and Joscelin of Courtenay, ...

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April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining. April 5 - Events. 33 - (traditional date) Resurrection of Jesus, according to the Christian gospels. (date est. by Sir Isaac Newton) 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. < ...

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The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a shipyard and naval depot that played a leading role in Venetian empire-building. It was one of the most important areas of Venice, lying in the Castello sestiere. The Byzantine-style establishment may have existed as early as the 8th century, though the present structure is usually said to have been begun in 1104, although there is no evidence for such a precise date. It definitely existed by the early thirteenth century and is mentioned in Dante's Inferno. The name probably comes from Arabic Dar al Sina’a ("Dockyard") an ...

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Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (ca. 634-March 20, 687) was a British monk and bishop who was one of the most important saints of England during the early Middle Ages. Cuthbert was of Northumbrian origin, probably from the neighborhood of Dunbar, in modern-day Scotland. While still a boy, employed as a shepherd, he thought that he saw one night the soul of Aidan carried to heaven by angels and thereupon went to the monastery of Old Melrose and became a monk (651). So ...

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Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venessia in the local dialect), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′N 12°19′E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). The city is included, with Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of ...

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• Venice - Venice in culture the arts and fiction
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Rashi רש"י, an acronym for Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac or Shlomo Yitzchaki, (February 22, 1040 – July 17, 1105) is one of Judaism's classic meforshim (Bible and Talmud commentators), and wrote the first comprehensive commentaries on the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and Talmud. Some sources give his surname as Yarhi, indicating that his family came from Lunel (Yareah, in Hebrew). Rashi - Biography. Rashi was born at Troyes, northern France, in 1040 and died there in 1104 or 1 ...

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Warangal is a city in Andhra Pradesh state of southeastern India. Warangal is 157 km northeast of the state capital of Hyderabad. Warangal is the administrative seat of Warangal District. It is the fourth-largest city in Andhra Pradesh with a population is 528,570 (agglomeration 577,190) (2001 census). The city is home to Kakatiya Medical College, Kakatiya University, Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Sciences(KITS-Wgl) and the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NITW), formerly known a ...

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The County of Edessa was one of the Crusader states in the 12th century, based around a city with an ancient history and an early tradition of Christianity (see Edessa). The County of Edessa was different from the other Crusader states in that it was landlocked; it was remote from the other states and was not on particularly good terms with its closest neighbor, the Principality of Antioch; and half of the county, including its capital, was located to the east of the Euphrates and hence far to the east of the others. The part west of ...

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A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Archetypally, factories gather and concentrate resources -- workers, capital and plant. Factory - Word usage. Before becoming associated with large-scale manufacturing, the term factory might refer to: a foreign-based t ...

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1168 - Births. 1168 - Deaths. April 5 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104) Thierry, Count of Flanders (born 1099) 1168 - Heads of states. England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154 - 1189). France - Louis VII, King of France (reigned 1137 - 1180). Category: 1168 ...

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Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century Decades: 1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s - 1100s - 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s 1150s Years: 1100 1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 1107 1108 1109 Events and Trends 1107 Emperor Toba ascends the throne of Japan The great Buddhist centre of learning at Nalanda is destroyed by invaders. Category: 1100s ...

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John was known as Kaloiannis, 'John the Beautiful'. William of Tyre says that he was short and unusually ugly, with eyes, hair and complexion so dark he was known as 'the Moor'. The description Kaloiannis referred not to his body but to his soul. Both his parents had been unusually pious and John surpassed them. Members of his court were expected to restrict their conversation to serious subjects only. The food served at the emperor's table was very frugal and John lectured courtiers who lived in excessive luxury. Despite his a ...

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The Venice Arsenal provides the first example of a factory in the modern sense of the word. Founded in 1104 in Venice, Italy, several hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, it mass-produced ships on assembly lines using manufactured parts. The Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day and, at its height, employed 16,000 people. Apart from that, many historians regard Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory (established i ...

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The area was inhabited in earliest times by Hers, Sujs, Tchilbs, and Lbins. Collectively called Hers (Heretians), these tribes came under the rule of Albanian kingdom in the 3rd century BC. With its decline, the area was gradually incorporated into the Iberian kingdom forming one of its counties (saeristavo) in the 5th century and its peoples were eventually assimilated into the Georgians proper. It was when the name Hereti first appeared in the Georgian sources. According to traditional accounts, the name of the province originated from the legendary patriarch Heros, the son of Thargamos, who founded the city of Hereti (later known ...

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The first historic king of Navarre was his son Sancho II Garces, nicknamed Abarca, who ruled from Pamplona as king of Navarre and count of Aragon from 970 to 994. The valley of Aragon he had inherited from his mother. The Historia General de Navarra by Jaime del Burgo says that on the occasion of the donation of the villa of Alastue by the king of Pamplona to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña in 987, he titled himself "King of Navarre," the first time that title had been used. In many places he appears as the first King of Navarre and in others the third; however, he was at least the s ...

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Kingdom of Navarre, Kingdom of Navarre - Early history, Kingdom of Navarre - Kingdom, Kingdom of Navarre - Navarre annexed to Aragon then to Castile, Kingdom of Navarre - Later history, Kingdom of Navarre - Territory today, Kingdom of Navarre - External link

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Literary sources and accounts reveal that there were at least three varieties of dromon. These were, firstly the ousiakooo which took its name from one company or ousia of one hundred men. This was a two-banked galley with the lower rank rowing only, and the upper rank rowing or disengaging to fight when required. Secondly the slightly larger pamphylos with a crew of between 120-160. Thirdly the dromon proper, which had a crew of two hundred, fifty on the lower bank, and one hundred on the upper bank in two files, together with fifty marines. A description of som ...

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Byzantine navy, Byzantine navy - Early period, Byzantine navy - Macedonian Dynasty, Byzantine navy - Late period, Byzantine navy - Ships, Byzantine navy - Greek fire, Byzantine navy - Notable events, Byzantine navy - Reference

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Besides minor works, such as an edition of the Siddur (Prayer-Book), Rashi wrote two great commentaries on which his fame rests. These were the commentaries on the whole of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and on about thirty tractates of the Talmud. Rashi's works are so well respected that he is often cited simply as "the Commentator." His commentaries are of interest to secular scholars because he tended to translate unfamilar words into the spoken French of his day. As such, his commentaries offer an interesting insight into the vocabulary and pronunciation of Old French. Rashi - C ...

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