1377 - Arts and Literature. May 10 – A deputy is appointed to take charge of Chaucer’s duties at customs, Chaucer being busy with diplomatic business. Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year. Nicholas Oresme is elected bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of Aristotle are an important contribution to the development of the French language. Al-Jurjani returns to Shiraz from Constantinople to become a teacher. ...

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Portsmouth - Early history of the area. Although there have been settlements in the area since before Roman times, mostly being offshoots of Portchester, Portsmouth is commonly regarded as having been founded in 1180 by John of Gisors (Jean de Gisors). Most early records of Portsmouth are thought to have been destroyed by Norman invaders following the Norman Conquest. The earliest detailed references to Portsmouth can ...

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Portsmouth, Portsmouth - Name, Portsmouth - History, Portsmouth - Early history of the area, Portsmouth - Growth of the city, Portsmouth - War with France, Portsmouth - 20th century, Portsmouth - Education, Portsmouth - Higher and further education, Portsmouth - Secondary education, Portsmouth - Government, Portsmouth - Media, Portsmouth - Shopping, Portsmouth - Sport, Portsmouth - Tourist Attractions, Portsmouth - Transport and communications, Portsmouth - Future developments, Portsmouth - Lists, Portsmouth - Chronology, Portsmouth - Famous residents, Portsmouth - Population

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In the fall of 1351, Ibn Battuta set out from Fez, reaching the last Moroccan town (Sijilmasa) a bit more than a week later. When the winter caravans began a few months later, he was with one, and within a month he was in the Central Saharan town of Taghaza. A centre of the salt trade, Taghaza was awash with salt and Malian gold, though Ibn Battuta did not have a favorable impression of the place. Another 500 miles through the worst part of the desert brought him to Ma ...

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Ibn Battuta, Ibn Battuta - The Hajj with detours, Ibn Battuta - To Iran and the Silk Road, Ibn Battuta - Second Hajj and East Africa, Ibn Battuta - Turkey and India, Ibn Battuta - Southeast Asia and China, Ibn Battuta - Return home and the Black Death, Ibn Battuta - Andalus and North Africa, Ibn Battuta - Mali

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Hastings was not a Roman settlement, although there are traces of Iron Age or Romano-British earthworks. The town of Hæstingas (probably referring to the followers of an Anglo-Saxon leader called Hæsta), is mentioned in documents from the eighth century, and a royal mint was established there in the reign of Athelstan. William the Conqueror made his headquarters here on his arrival in England, and the Battle of Hastings was fought a few miles a way near the present town of Battle. In this battle, William defeated and killed Harold G ...

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Hastings, Hastings - History, Hastings - Geography, Hastings - Local government, Hastings - Buildings, Hastings - Fishing, Hastings - Visitor attractions, Hastings - Transport links, Hastings - Economic and social status, Hastings - Noted residents, Hastings - Former Residents, Hastings - Current Residents, Hastings - Hastings in Film & TV

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When the Lê emperor Lê Long Đĩnh died in his twenties, a court general named Lý Công Uẩn took the chance to take over the throne and founded the Lý dynasty. This event is regarded as the beginning of a golden era in Vietnamese history, with great dynasties following one another. Lý Công Uẩn (commonly called Lý Thái Tổ - Lý the Founding Emperor) changed the country's name to Đại Việt, established the capital in present-day Hanoi and called it Thăng Long (Ascending Dragon) under the pretext of seeing a dragon when he wa ...

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History of Vietnam, History of Vietnam - Origins, History of Vietnam - Early Independence, History of Vietnam - Dynastic Period, History of Vietnam - The Changing Names, History of Vietnam - Colonization, History of Vietnam - Post World War II Period, History of Vietnam - Aftermath of the Vietnam War and Reunification, History of Vietnam - Cambodia and the Sino-Vietnamese War, History of Vietnam - 1980s, History of Vietnam - Reforms

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The political unification of the region into the state called Kievan Rus, from which modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine trace their origins, occurred approximately a century before the adoption of Christianity in 988 and the establishment of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic as the liturgical and literary language. Documentation of the language of this period is scanty, making it difficult at best fully to deter ...

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Old East Slavic language, Old East Slavic language - General considerations, Old East Slavic language - Literary language of Kievan Rus, Old East Slavic language - Primary Chronicle, Old East Slavic language - Tale of Igor's Campaign, Old East Slavic language - Old East Slavic Literature, Old East Slavic language - Notable texts

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Avignon (pronounced [aviɲɔ̃] in IPA, Provençal: Avignoun) is a commune in southern France with some 88,300 inhabitants in the city itself and 155,500 in the Greater Avignon area. Avignon - Location. Avignon is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, in the Vauclu ...

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• Avignon - History
• Avignon - Early history
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• Avignon - Sights
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Jauhar immediately began the building of a new city, Cairo, to furnish quarters for the army which he had brought. A palace for the Caliph and a mosque for the army were immediately constructed, which for many centuries remained the centre of Muslim learning. However, the Carmathians of Damascus under Hasan al-Asam advanced through Palestine to Egypt, and in the autumn of 971 Jauhar found himself besieged in his new city. By a timely sortie, preceded by the administration of bribes to various officers in the Carmathian h ...

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History of early Arab Egypt, History of early Arab Egypt - The Arab Conquest of Egypt, History of early Arab Egypt - The Fatimid Period, History of early Arab Egypt - Ayyubid Period, History of early Arab Egypt - Bahri Mameluk dynasty, History of early Arab Egypt - Period of Burji Mamelukes

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Hastings - Former Residents. John Logie Baird, pioneer of television Kevin Ball, ex-footballer and now coach at Sunderland A.F.C. Gareth Barry, footballer for Aston Villa (2005) Jo Brand, comedienne John Bratby, painter Catherine Cookson, popular novelist Alistair Crowley, occultist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, philosopher and theologian Simon Fuller, pop-music manager (most famously of The Spice Girls) Grey Owl (Archibald Belan ...

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Hastings, Hastings - History, Hastings - Geography, Hastings - Local government, Hastings - Buildings, Hastings - Fishing, Hastings - Visitor attractions, Hastings - Transport links, Hastings - Economic and social status, Hastings - Noted residents, Hastings - Former Residents, Hastings - Current Residents, Hastings - Hastings in Film & TV

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Vietnam's third constitution, based on that of the USSR, was written in 1980. Through the 1980s, Vietnam received nearly $3 billion a year in economic and military aid from the Soviet Union and conducted most of its trade with the USSR and other Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries. ...

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History of Vietnam, History of Vietnam - Origins, History of Vietnam - Early Independence, History of Vietnam - Dynastic Period, History of Vietnam - The Changing Names, History of Vietnam - Colonization, History of Vietnam - Post World War II Period, History of Vietnam - Aftermath of the Vietnam War and Reunification, History of Vietnam - Cambodia and the Sino-Vietnamese War, History of Vietnam - 1980s, History of Vietnam - Reforms

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In modern versions of the legend, Robin Hood is said to have taken up residence in the verdant Sherwood Forest in the county of Nottinghamshire. This is a matter of some considerable contention. The original ballads speak of his being in Barnsdale (the area between Pontefract and Doncaster), some fifty miles north of Sherwood in the county of Yorkshire. This is reinforced for some by the similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the “Kings Larder” in the Royal Forest of the Pea ...

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Robin Hood, Robin Hood - The Robin Hood legend, Robin Hood - Possible locations, Robin Hood - Modern interpretations, Robin Hood - Other trivia, Robin Hood - Movies and TV series, Robin Hood - Appearance in other arts, Robin Hood - Music, Robin Hood - Video games

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Over the centuries, Bologna has acquired many nicknames: "Bologna the learned" ("Bologna la dotta") is a reference to its famous university; "Bologna the fat" ("Bologna la grassa") refers to its cuisine. Bologna is also called "Bologna the red" (Bologna la rossa) not only for its political leanings but also due to its abundance of red brick and marble buildings. Until the late nineteenth century, when a large-scale urban reconstruction project was undertaken, Bologna remained one of the best preserved Medieval cit ...

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Bologna, Bologna - History, Bologna - Overview, Bologna - Transport, Bologna - Demographics, Bologna - Cuisine, Bologna - The University, Bologna - Famous residents

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