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Yarkand (modern Chinese name 叶城, pinyin: Yèchéng, also Chokkuka, anciently Suoju 莎車, also written Shache and Suoche; 37°52′N 77°24′E alt. about 1,189 m. or 3,900 ft.; pop. about 72,000 in 1990), was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located between Pishan and Kashgar on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin. ...

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The Chauhans or Chahamana are a clan who ruled parts of northern India in the Middle Ages.The Chauhan gotra is found among the Jats,Rajputs, and Gujars. Chauhans are mentioned in the Jat history also because historians have proved that the Chauhan belong to the Takshak dynasty and some Jat gotras do belong to the Chauhan dynasty. According to Colonel James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, the ancestor of the Chauhan dynasty was Anhal Raja ...

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Genghis Khan ▶ (help·info) (c. 11621–August 18, 1227) (Cyrillic: Чингис Хаан), (also spelled as Chinggis Khan, Jenghis Khan, etc.), (pronounced ʧiŋgɪs χaːŋ), born as Tem ...

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• Genghis Khan - Conquest of the Khara-Khitan Khanate
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• Genghis Khan - The defeat of the Kieven Rus
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Cooling is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula, overlooking the North Kent Marshes. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 209. This remote and isolated hamlet has been described as 'the capital of English Lollardry' because of its association with Sir John Oldcastle. The most notable feature of the village is Cooling Castle, built on the edge of the marshes during the 12th century to defend the neighbouri ...

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Danylo of Galicia (Ukrainian: Данило Галицький, Danylo Halyts’kyi), (1201-1264) was the 1st King of Galicia, Knyaz of Halych (1205–1206, 1211–1212, 1229–1231, 1233–1235, 1238–1255), Peremyshl (1211), and Volodymyr-Volynsky (1212–1231). He was crowned by a papal archbishop in Dorohychyn 1253/1255 as the 1st King of Galicia (1253–1264). Danylo of Halych - Biography. In 1205, after the death of his father, Roman Mstyslavyc ...

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Valdemar II (1170–1241), called Valdemar the Conqueror or Valdemar the Victorious, was the King of Denmark from 1202 until 1241. He was the second son of King Valdemar I and Sophia of Polotsk, a Varangian princess. In 1202, Valdemar II succeeded his childless elder brother Canute VI after serving him for years. He is counted among the greatest of Danish (medieval) kings. In 1204 he secured the recognition of Norway as kingdom. In the 1210s he began to expand the Danish influence in the crusade against the last r ...

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Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), a son of Genghis Khan (1206—1227), controlled the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili river (eastern Kazakhstan) and Kashgaria (western Tarim Basin) to Transoxiana. He inherited most of what are now the five Central Asian states and northern Iran after the death of his father which he ruled until his death in 1242. The Empire later came to be known as the Chagatai Khanate, part of the Mongol Empire. These te ...

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Carpathian Germans (German: Karpatendeutsche, Slovak: karpatskí Nemci), sometimes simply called Slovak Germans (German: Slowakeideutsche), is the name for a group of German language speakers on the territory of present-day Slovakia. The term was coined by the historian Raimund Friedrich Preindel, and is also sometimes used to refer to Germans in the Carpathian Ruthenia. Germans settled in Slovakia from the 12th to 15th centuries, mostly after the Mongol invasion of 1241, though there were probably some iso ...

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Location of Budapest in Hungary Budapest (pronounced ['budɒˌpɛʃt]) is the capital city of Hungary and the country's principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre. It has more than 1.7 million inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s peak of 2.07 million. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with the amalgamation in 1873 of right-bank Buda (Ofen in German) and Óbuda (Old Buda or Alt-Ofen) together w ...

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Boleslaus the Chaste or the Shy (Polish: Bolesław Wstydliwy) (21 June 1226 O.S. – 7 December 1279 O.S.) was the son of Leszek the White. Several years after the death of Henry the Pious at the battle of Legnica (1241), he became king in Kraków, and thereby the predominant prince of the deeply partitioned Poland. He was married to Kinga or Cunegunda, daughter of the Hungarian king Béla IV. According to medieval chronicles the marriage was never consummated. Kinga, being extremely pious, was averse to fulfillin ...

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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia. The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world after the four Eastern Patriarchates: those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Including:

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• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Autocephaly of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Ohrid Archbishopric
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Turnovo Patriarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Ottoman rule
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Bulgarian Exarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Second restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate

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Bundi is a city of approximately 74,000 inhabitants in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India. It is of particular architectural note for its ornate forts, palaces, and baoris (step wells), or water reservoirs. It is the administrative headquarters of Bundi District. Bundi - Location. The town of Bundi is situated 36 km from Kota and 206 km from Jaipur. It is located at 25.30°N 75.35°E and an altitude of 515 m. The city lies near a narrow gorge, and is surrounded on three si ...

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Bohemia (Czech: Čechy; German: Böhmen, Russian: Bogemiya) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. With an area of 52,750 sq. km. and 6.25 million of the country's 10.3 million inhabitants, Bohemia is bounded by Germany to the north-west, west and south-west, Poland to the north-east, the Czech province of Moravia to the east, and Austria to the south. Bohemia's borders are marked with mountain ranges such as the Šumava, the Ore Mountains or Gia ...

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The Yuan Dynasty (Mongolian: Dai Ön Yeke Mongghul Ulus; Chinese: 元朝 or 大元帝國) lasting officially from 1271 to 1368, also called the Mongol Dynasty, was the name given to the significant ruling family of Borjigin in Asia. It invaded and ruled, during its hundred year life, over the Mongol Empire (stretching from Eastern Europe to the Middle-east to Russia), Korea and China. In the historiography of China, it followed the Song Dynasty and preceded the Ming Dynasty in China. Yuan Dynasty - Birth of the Yu ...

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• Yuan Dynasty - Early Rule
• Yuan Dynasty - Impact
• Yuan Dynasty - Downfall of the Yuan
• Yuan Dynasty - Civil Unrest
• Yuan Dynasty - Loss of China
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1178 - Events. June 18 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed The Sung Document written detailing the discovery of "Mu-Lan-Pi" (suggested by some to be California) by Muslim sailors The Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury written The Leaning Tower of Pisa begins to lean as the third level is completed 1178 - Births. December 22 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (died 1185) Armand de Pér ...

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1184 - Births. Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (approximate date; died 1241) Saadi, Iranian poet (died 1291) 1184 - Deaths. Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph Giorgi III, king of Georgia Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury Magnus Erlingsson, king of Norway 1184 - Heads of states. England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154 - 1189). France - Philippe II, ...

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1170 - Events. December 29: Assassination of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral City of Dublin captured by the Normans Wang Anshi of Song China started to carried out reforms in three main structures, education, economy and political system. 1170 - Births. Valdemar II of Denmark (died 1241) Dominic de Guzman, founder of the Dominicans (died 1221) Eustace the Monk, French pirate (died 1217)Including:

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1145 - Events. Pope Lucius II is succeeded by Pope Eugenius III Pope Eugenius III issues Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade Construction begins on Notre-Dame d'Chartres in Chartres, France Korean historian Kim Pusik compiled the historical text Samguk Sagi. Woburn Abbey founded 1145 - Births. Maria of Antioch, Byzantine Empress (died 1182) Marie de Champagne, Countess of Champagne< ...

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1143 - Events. Celestine II is elected pope. October 5 - Portugal is recognized by the Kingdom of Leon as an independent kingdom although it had acted like one since the battle of June 24 of 1128 Robert of Ketton makes the first European translation of the Qur'an, into Latin The exploration of the uncharted eastern parts of Germany begins and results in the founding of cities such as Lübeck Baldwin III crowned King of Jerusalem, succeeding his father Fulk. ...

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For broader historical context, see 1250s and 13th century. 1257 - Events. Robert de Sorbon founds the Collège de Sorbonne at Paris, giving a formal college (and still-common name) to the already existing University of Paris in France. Matthew Paris, English historian, personally intreviews King Henry III of England for a week straight while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora. King Henry III of England orders the production of an twenty pence ...

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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1276 - Events. February - The court of the Southern Song Dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian and then Guangdong in an effort to escape an invasion by the Mongol Empire. March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City. Ravensburg also does in the same year. June - King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival; by November, Ot ...

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