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1134 - Events. House of Brandenburg begins when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Citeaux Abbey Cormac's Chapel consecrated Cathedral of St Petri in Schleswig completed Pontifical University of Salamanca started in Castile Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, revolts against Fulk, King of Jerusalem. 1134 - Births. King Sancho III of Castile (died 1158) Ki ...

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Baldwin IV (1108 – November 8, 1171) was count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death. Baldwin married Alice of Namur, heiress of Namur, and had the following issue: Yolande (1131–1202), married Hugh IV, Count of St Pol Baldwin (1134–1147) Agnes (1142–1168) Geoffrey, Count of Ostervant (1147–1163) Lauretta (1150–1181), married Bouchard IV, Count of Montmorency Baldwin V (1150–1195), also count of Flanders by his marriage to Margaret I of Fl ...

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Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germany's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). Lying in the east of the country, in its current form it is one of the new states created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam. Historically Brandenburg was an independent state which grew to become the core of modern Germany (see below). The state of Brandenburg was named after the town of Brandenburg (Slavic: Brennabor). Including:

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• Brandenburg - 12th Century
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The Duchy of Carinthia (German language: Kärnten, Slovenian: Koroška) was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, and a crownland of Austria-Hungary until it dissolved in 1918. Carinthia duchy - Karantania and medieval dynasties. In the 7th century it was part of the Principality of Karantania, and was part of the empire of Charlemagne from 788 to 843, when it became part of the eastern Frankish kingdom of Louis the German. From 889 to 927 the Mark of Carinthia was pa ...

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Modern Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك) is a town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. 19th century Bible archaeologists wanted to connect Baalbek to the "Baalgad" mentioned in Joshua 11:17, but the assertion has not been taken up in modern times. In fact, this minor Phoenician c ...

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April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). There are 258 days remaining. April 17 - Events. 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano ...

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Conjoined twins are twins whose bodies are joined together at birth. This happens where the zygote of identical twins fails to completely separate. Conjoined twins occur in an estimated one in 200,000 births, with approximately half being stillborn. The overall survival rate for conjoined twins is between 5% and 25%. Conjoined twins are more likely to be female (70-75%). Conjoined twins - Conjoined Twins in History. The term Siamese Twins comes from what are probably the most famous pair, Chang and E ...

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Saint William of Gellone (755-traditionally May 28, c.812 or 814), in his own day Guilhem, also known as Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez, was the second count of Toulouse from 790 until his replacement in 811. He is the hero of the chanson de geste Roman de Guillaume au court-nez, part of the Languedocian cycle of French ramauce, called by the trouvères the geste of Garin de Monglane. However, there is also a less legend-filled Vita that was written before the 11th century, according to Jean Mabillon, or duri ...

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William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie; 1028?–September 9, 1087) ruled as the Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 (as William II) and as King of England from 1066 to 1087 (as William I). The sole son of Robert the Magnificent and Herleva, William was born illegitimate in Falaise, Normandy, part of France. William invaded England, won a victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and suppressing subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest. No authentic portrait of William has been found. He was described as a big burly man, strong in every ...

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Al-Mustarshid (d. 1135) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1118 to 1135. Son of the preceding Caliph, he once more tried independence while the Seljuks were engaged in war in the East. They had left Baghdad much to itself. Risings in Iraq at this time were common. One of the rising was led by the famous but unscrupulous general Dubeis. After plundering Basra, he joined the Crusaders in their attempt upon Aleppo, and afterwards incited a young brother of the Sultan to rebel and make a dash upon the capital; but the Caliph with 12,000 m ...

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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. August 30 - Events. 711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state. 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master 1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) 1813 - Battle of Kulm: Fr ...

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1158 - Births. September 23 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (died 1186) Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (died 1197) Taira no Shigehira, son of Taira no Kiyomori (died 1185) 1158 - Deaths. August 30 - King Sancho III of Castile (born 1134) Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114) 1158 - Heads of states. England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of ...

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1100 - Events. William II of England dies in a hunting accident - Henry I becomes King of England King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution. Baldwin I becomes King of Jerusalem. Baldwin of Bourcq becomes Count of Edessa. Dagobert of Pisa becomes Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. Bohemund I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch. The cities of Kalma ...

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The Cathedral of Chartres ("Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres," French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered the finest example in all France of the "high Gothic" style of architecture. Construction of a new building on the Romanesque foundations was begun in 1145, but a fire in 1194 destroyed all but the west front of the cathedral (and much of the town), so that part is in the "early Gothic" style. The body of the cathedral was rebuilt between 119 ...

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Shree Basava (also known as Basaveshwara or Basavanna) is known as the founder of the lingayat (Lingayats) religious sect in India. He brought on a social transformation, often referred as "revolution," in that he changed the lower caste people into a higher thinking of God or Shiva. He is said to have been a mystic by temperament, an idealist by choice, a statesman by profession, a man of letters by taste, a humanis ...

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1194 - Events. July 5 - Emperor Guangzong of Sung China was forced to give up his throne. Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire November 20 - Palermo falls to Henry VI December 25 - Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily. City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter. Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter. Yellow River of China experienced a major course change. It took over the Huai River drainage system for the ne ...

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Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig) is a town at the Schlei firth in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) Schleswig-Flensburg. Today, it has a population of about 25,000. Schleswig is a very old town. The Viking settlement of Hedeby, which is today a part of the city, was first time mentioned in 804. It was a powerful city in the Baltic region, dominating the area for more than 200 years. In 1050, following several destructions of Haithabu, the town was mov ...

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The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. In 1098 Saint Robert, born of a noble family in Champagne, France, at first a Benedictine monk and then abbot of certain hermits, settled at Molesme near Chatillon. Being dissatisfied with the manner of life and observance there, he migrated with twenty of the monks to a swampy place ("a place of horrors") called Citeaux in the d ...

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William was the son of Theodoric (French: Thierry) of the Merovingian royal house and Aldana (French: Aude), daughter of Charles Martel and therefore sister of Pepin the Short. He was thus a kinsman, as well as trusted comes, of Charlemagne, at whose court he was present as a youth (as was his right). He was born in northern France somewhere in the middle of the 8th century. When he was made Count of Toulouse, Charlemagne put his young son Louis the Pious, who was to inheri ...

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According to John of Ibelin, it was one of the four major Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. John, writing in the 13th century, called it a lordship, but it may have been treated as a principality in the 12th century. It was established after the expedition of Baldwin I, but due to the relative size and inaccessibility of the area, the lords of Oultrejordain tended to claim some independence from the kingdom. With its mostly undefined borders, it was one of the largest seigneuries. Baldwin I may have given it away to Roman of Le Puy in 111 ...

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