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601 - Events. The future Archbishops of Canterbury, Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius, and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are sent to England by Pope Gregory I to aid Augustine in his missionary work. Livva II succeeds his brother Reccared as King of the Visigoths. The earliest dated English words are 'Town' and 'Priest', both recorded in the Laws of Ethelbert. The Qieyun, a Chinese character rhyme dictionary, is published. 601 - Births. Including:

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• 601 - Births
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Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597. He was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, the second archbishop. In 596, Augustine was praepositus (prior) of the monastery of Saint Andrew, founded by Pope Gregory I, and was sent by Gregory at the head of forty monks to preach to the Anglo-Saxons. They lost heart on the way and Augustine went back to Rome from Provence and asked that the mission be given up. The pope, however, commanded and encouraged them to proceed, ...

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The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. The 5th and 6th centuries are known archaeologically as Sub-Roman Britain, or in popular history as the "Dark Ages"; from the 6th century larger distinctive kingdoms are developing, still known to some as the Heptarchy; the arrival of the Vikings at the end of the 8th century brought many changes to Britain, and relation ...

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• History of Anglo-Saxon England - Sources
• History of Anglo-Saxon England - Migration: Fifth to Sixth Centuries
• History of Anglo-Saxon England - Seventh to Eighth Centuries
• History of Anglo-Saxon England - First Viking Age: Ninth Century
• History of Anglo-Saxon England - Formation of England: Tenth Century
• History of Anglo-Saxon England - The Second Viking Age and the Norman Conquest: Eleventh Century

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It is led by the Archbishop of Milan who serves as metropolitan to the dioceses of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Pavia and Vigevano. The Church in Milan was first established in the 1st century as a small diocese. It was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese in the 4th century. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan - Bishops and Archbishops. St. Barnabas (ca.50-5 ...

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The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were among the loosely-termed Germanic peoples who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period. After the collapse of the western Roman Empire the Visigoths played a major role in western European affairs for another two and a half centuries. Visigoth - Visigoths as Tervingi. The naming of this people is problematic. Some time shortly after 291 Mamertinus made a eulogy of Em ...

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• Visigoth - Visigoths as Tervingi
• Visigoth - Early history
• Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom in Aquitaine
• Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
• Visigoth - Kings of the Visigoths
• Visigoth - Early kings
• Visigoth - Balti dynasty
• Visigoth - Later kings
• Visigoth - Doubtful kings
• Visigoth - Select bibliography

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Saint Vincent of Saragossa, (feast day: January 22) was born at Huesca and martyred under Diocletian, in 304, is the patron saint of Lisbon. He was originally from Zaragoza in modern Spain (Saragossa in English) and is also known as Saint Vincent the Deacon. The title "deacon" (diakonos) means only minister or servant. See entry Deacon. Vincent served as the deacon of Saint Valerius, bishop of Saragossa. Imprisoned in Valencia for his faith, and tortured on a gridiron — a story perhaps adapted from the martyrdom ...

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Zen is the Japanese name of a well known branch of Mahāyāna Buddhist schools, practiced originally in India as Dhyan (ध्यान), which then came to be known in China as Ch'an (禪), and subsequently in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Zen emphasizes the role of sitting meditation (zazen) in pursuing enlightenment. Though considered simply a practice by most of its practitioners, Zen is also considered a religion or a philosophy by some. It has also been describe ...

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• Zen - Zen in Japan
• Zen - Zen and Buddhism
• Zen - Zen teachings and practices
• Zen - Zazen
• Zen - The teacher
• Zen - Koan practice
• Zen - Radical teachings
• Zen - Zen and Western culture
• Zen - Zen in Films
• Zen - American Zen

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The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language, making it the language with the most native speakers. In general, all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. However, Chinese is also distinguished for a high level of internal diversity. Regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable t ...

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• Chinese language - Chinese characters
• Chinese language - History
• Chinese language - Influence on other languages
• Chinese language - Sounds
• Chinese language - Romanization
• Chinese language - Other Transcriptions
• Chinese language - Morphology
• Chinese language - Loanwords
• Chinese language - Grammar

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Main articles: Sub-Roman Britain, Roman departure from Britain, Aelle of Sussex It is very difficult to establish a coherent chronology of events from Rome's departure from Britain, to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The story of the Roman departure as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae is dubious except as documenting Medieval legend. The archaeological records of the final decades of Roman rule show undeniable signs of decay, in st ...

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History of Anglo-Saxon England, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Sources, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Migration and Formation of Kingdoms 400-600, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Heptarchy and Christianization 600-800, History of Anglo-Saxon England - The Viking Challenge and the Rise of Wessex 9th century, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Formation of England 10th century, History of Anglo-Saxon England - England under the Danes and the Norman Conquest 978-1066

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Gregory's independent action in appointing governors to cities, providing munitions of war, giving instructions to generals, sending ambassadors to the Lombard king, and even negotiating a peace without consulting the Emperor's legate, Romanus, Exarch of Ravenna, mark the decisive acts that revealed the papacy as an independent temporal power. Gregory's childhood in the disasters of the Gothic War, his secular cursus honorum, his sojourn in Constantinople, and doubtless his personal assessment of the Exarch, convinced him that no help ...

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Pope Gregory I, Pope Gregory I - Confrontation with Eutychius, Pope Gregory I - Gregory as pope, Pope Gregory I - Lombards, Pope Gregory I - Servus servorum Dei, Pope Gregory I - Works, Pope Gregory I - Bibliography

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The Visigoths first appeared in history as a distinct people in the year 268 when they invaded the Roman Empire and swarmed over the Balkan peninsula. This invasion overran the Roman provinces of Pannonia and Illyricum and even threatened Italia itself. However, the Visigoths were defeated in battle near the modern Italian-Slovenian border that summer and then routed in the Battle of Naissus that September. Over the next three years they were driven back over the Danube River in a series of campaigns by the emperors Claudius II Gothicus and Aurelian. However, they maintained their hold on the Roman province ...

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Visigoth, Visigoth - Visigoths as Tervingi, Visigoth - Early history, Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom in Aquitaine, Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia, Visigoth - Kings of the Visigoths, Visigoth - Early kings, Visigoth - Balti dynasty, Visigoth - Later kings, Visigoth - Doubtful kings, Visigoth - Select bibliography

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Lombards - Origins and conquest of Italy. Their own traditions (preserved in the Origo Gentis Langobardorum) describe how they were formerly called Winili, and how they left Scandinavia under the leaders Ybor and Agio, and settled in Continental Europe, in the lower course of the Elbe river, where they were recorded by Tacitus as early as A.D. 98: What, on the contrary, ennobles the Langobards is the smallness of their number, for that they, who are surrounded with very many and very ...

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Lombards, Lombards - History, Lombards - Origins and conquest of Italy, Lombards - Rothari and his successors, Lombards - The end of the Lombard kingdom of Italy, Lombards - Sources, Lombards - Historic kings of the Lombards, Lombards - Lething Dynasty, Lombards - Another Dynasty, Lombards - Gausian Dynasty, Lombards - Another Dynasty, Lombards - Bavarian Dynasty First Time, Lombards - Non-dynastic Kings, Lombards - Bavarian Dynasty Second Time, Lombards - Beneventan Dynasty, Lombards - Bavarian Dynasty Third Time, Lombards - Non-dynastic Kings

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Zen teachings often criticize textual study and the pursuit of worldly accomplishments, concentrating primarily on meditation in pursuit of an unmediated awareness of the processes of the world and the mind. Zen, however, is not exactly a quietistic doctrine: the Chinese Chan master Baizhang (720-814 CE), (Japanese: Hyakujo), left behind a famous saying which had been the guiding principle of his life, "A day without work is a day without eating." When Baizhang was thought to be too old to work in the garden, his devotees hid his gardening tools. In response to this, the master t ...

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Zen, Zen - Spread of Zen, Zen - Zen in Japan, Zen - Zen and Buddhism, Zen - Zen teachings and practices, Zen - Zazen, Zen - The teacher, Zen - Koan practice, Zen - Radical teachings, Zen - Zen and Western culture, Zen - Zen in Films, Zen - American Zen

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Theodore held that a union of the two natures in Christ was unthinkable. Henana on the other hand favored a union of the two natures, the divine and the mortal, in Christ in one hypostasis, as specified in Chalcedon in 451. Accordingly, he believed in God's suffering on the Cross, impossible without a union between the two natures, and he accepted the decisions of Ephesus and believed that the term 'mother of God' was appropriate for the Virgin Mary. Theodore had taught that man was created mortal. Henana believed that Adam was initia ...

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Henana of Adiabene, Henana of Adiabene - Christological dispute, Henana of Adiabene - Origenism, Henana of Adiabene - Growing opposition, Henana of Adiabene - Legacy of Henana

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With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. In spite of the stigma attached to being dhimmis (non-Moslem members of monotheistic faiths) under Moslem rule, the coming of the Moors was by-and-large welcomed by the Jews of Iberia. Both Moslem and Christian sources tell us that Jews provided valuable aid to the invaders. Once captured, the defense of Cordoba was left in the hands of Jews, and Granada, Málaga, Seville, and Toledo were left to a mixed army of Jews and Moors. The Chro ...

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History of the Jews in Spain, History of the Jews in Spain - Early History Before 300 CE, History of the Jews in Spain - Under the Visigoths 5th Century-711, History of the Jews in Spain - Moorish Spain and the Golden Age 711-12th Century, History of the Jews in Spain - Christian Spain 974-1300, History of the Jews in Spain - Early Rule 974-1085, History of the Jews in Spain - Toleration and Jewish immigration 1085-1212, History of the Jews in Spain - Turning point 1212-1300, History of the Jews in Spain - The Jewish community in 1300, History of the Jews in Spain - Official persecution and massacres 1300-1391, History of the Jews in Spain - Massacres of 1366., History of the Jews in Spain - Anti-Jewish Enactments, History of the Jews in Spain - The Massacre of 1391, History of the Jews in Spain - Forced Conversions and the New Christians 1391-1492, History of the Jews in Spain - Forced conversions, History of the Jews in Spain - Hatred of the New Christians, History of the Jews in Spain - Edict of Expulsion, History of the Jews in Spain - Number of the Exiles, History of the Jews in Spain - Marranos 1492-1858, History of the Jews in Spain - Modern times 1858-, History of the Jews in Spain - External link

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and Anglo-Saxons It is very difficult to establish a coherent chronology of events from Rome's departure from Britain, to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It is traditionally held that Rome left Britain in 410, when Emperor Honorius told the Romano-British to look to their own defence. However, even by the late 5th century the Romano-British felt they could appeal to the consul Aetius for help against invaders. Various myths and legends surround the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, some based on documentary evidenc ...

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History of Anglo-Saxon England, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Sources, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Migration: Fifth to Sixth Centuries, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Seventh to Eighth Centuries, History of Anglo-Saxon England - First Viking Age: Ninth Century, History of Anglo-Saxon England - Formation of England: Tenth Century, History of Anglo-Saxon England - The Second Viking Age and the Norman Conquest: Eleventh Century

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Some historians claim that his father Severian was duke or governor of Carthage, but Saint Isidore simply states that he was a citizen of that city. The family emigrated from Carthage about 554 and went to Seville. Severian had three sons, Leander, Isidore, and Fulgentius, and one daughter, Florentina. St. Leander and St. Isidore both became bishops of Seville; St. Fulgentius, bishop of Carthagena, and Saint Florentina, a nun, directed forty convents and one thousand nuns. It has been also believed, but wrongly, that Theodosia, another daugh ...

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Saint Leander, Saint Leander - Life, Saint Leander - Works

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The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main groups, in order of population size are: Mandarin 北方话/北方話 or 官話/官话 (old name) Wu 吳/吴 Cantonese 粵/粤 Min 閩/闽 Xiang 湘 Hakka 客家 or 客 Gan 贛/赣 Chinese linguists have recently distinguished 3 more groups from the traditional seven: ...

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Chinese language, Chinese language - Spoken Chinese, Chinese language - Language or language family?, Chinese language - Written Chinese, Chinese language - Chinese characters, Chinese language - History, Chinese language - Influence on other languages, Chinese language - Sounds, Chinese language - Romanization, Chinese language - Other Transcriptions, Chinese language - Morphology, Chinese language - Loanwords, Chinese language - Grammar

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The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main groups, in order of population size are: Mandarin 北方 or 官話/官话 (old name) Wu 吳/吴 Cantonese 粵/粤 Min 閩/闽 Xiang 湘 Hakka 客家 or 客 Gan 贛/赣 Chinese linguists have recently distinguished 3 more groups from the traditional seven: Jin 晉/晋 from Mandarin Hui 徽 from Wu ...

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Chinese language, Chinese language - Spoken Chinese, Chinese language - Language or language family?, Chinese language - Written Chinese, Chinese language - Chinese characters, Chinese language - History, Chinese language - Influence on other languages, Chinese language - Sounds, Chinese language - Romanization, Chinese language - Other Transcriptions, Chinese language - Morphology, Chinese language - Loanwords, Chinese language - Grammar

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