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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 580s - 590s - 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s Years: 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 Events: 630 - Serbs and Croats settle the Balkans in the provinces of Moesia, Pannonia and Dalmatia 632 - death of Muhammad and transfer of authority in Islam to first caliph. around 633 - Isidore of Seville completes his Etymologies 636 - Occupation of Palestine by followers of Muhammad 637 - Occupation of ...

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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s - 730s Years: 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 Events: Battle of Karbala Category: 680s ...

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York Minster is an imposing Anglican Gothic cathedral in York, northern England. It is the seat of the Archbishop of York, and cathedral for the Diocese of York. It has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic choir and east end, and Early English north and south transepts. The nave contains the West Window, constructed in 1338, and the Great East Window (finished in 1408) over the Lady Chapel in the east end. In the north transept is the Five Sisters Window, each lancet being over 16 metres h ...

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Bulgars (also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians) - a people of Central Asia, originally Pamirian or Turkic, whose branches became Slavicized and Turkic over time. The Turkic etymology most often given for their name is Bulgha meaning sable and is of totemistic origin. Bulgars - History. Bulgars - Migration to Europe. In the 2nd century AD, some groups of Bulgars migrated to the European continent and settled on the plains between the Caspian and the Black S ...

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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s - 720s Years: 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 670s - Events. 674-677 - Arab army first besieges Constantinople Category: 670s ...

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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s - 710s Years: 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 Events: The Synod of Whitby Category: 660s ...

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Events August 20 - Battle of Yarmuk - Byzantine Empire loses Syria to the Arabs The Arabs invade Persia Rothari marries queen Gundeparga, becomes king of the Lombards city of Basra Iraq founded on a canal by caliph Omar. Births Deaths April 4 - Isidore of Seville, scholar Arioald, king of the Lombards Categories: 630s | 636 ...

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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s - 700s Years: 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 Events: Buddhism introduced to Tibet Caliph Othman puts Muhammad's teachings (the Qur'an) into 114 chapters Category: 650s ...

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Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 590s - 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s - 690s Years: 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 Events 640 - Occupation of Egypt and Syria by followers of Muhammad 642 - Occupation of Persia by followers of Muhammad which with those from the 630s made up the united Islamic Caliphate. l ...

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Penda was a son of Pybba and said to be a descendant of Icel, with a lineage purportedly extending back to Woden. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives his descent as follows: Penda was Pybba's offspring, Pybba was Cryda's offspring, Cryda Cynewald's offspring, Cynewald Cnebba's offspring, Cnebba Icel's offspring, Icel Eomer's offspring, Eomer Angeltheow's offspring, Angeltheow Offa's offspring, Offa Wermund's offspring, Wermund Wihtlaeg's offspring ...

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Penda of Mercia, Penda of Mercia - Descent beginning of reign and battle with the West Saxons, Penda of Mercia - Alliance with Cadwallon and the Battle of Hatfield Chase, Penda of Mercia - During the reign of Oswald, Penda of Mercia - Maserfield, Penda of Mercia - Campaigns between Maserfield and the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Relations with Bernicia; Christianity and Middle Anglia, Penda of Mercia - Final campaign and the battle of the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Aftermath and historical appraisal, Penda of Mercia - Notes

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York has had a Christian presence from the 300s. The first church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfred ascended to the see of York; he put in place efforts to repair and renew the structure. The attached school and library were established and by the 8th century were some of ...

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York Minster, York Minster - History, York Minster - The Towers and Bells

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Bulgars - Migration to Europe. In the 2nd century AD, some groups of Bulgars migrated to the European continent and settled on the plains between the Caspian and Black Seas. Between AD 351 and 389, some of these crossed the Caucasus and settled in Armenia. Toponymic data testify to the fact that they remained there and were eventually assimilated by the Armenians. Swept by the Hunnish wave at the beginning of the 4th century AD, other Bulgar tribes broke loose from their settlements in central Asia to migr ...

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The first intensive settlement in the Derbent area dates from the 8th century BC. Until the 4th century AD it was part of Caucasian Albania, and is usually identified with Albana, the capital. The modern name, a Persian word (دربند Darband) meaning "closed gates", came into use in the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century, when the city was refounded by Kavadh I of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia. The walls and the citadel are believed to belong to the time of Kavadh's son, Khosrau I. Derbent became a strong military ...

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Bulgars - Migration to Europe. In the 2nd century AD, some groups of Bulgars migrated to the European continent and settled on the plains between the Caspian and the Black Sea. Between 351 and 389 AD, some of these crossed the Caucasus and settled in Armenia. Toponymic data testify to the fact that they remained there and were eventually assimilated by the Armenians. Swept by the Hunnish wave at the beginning of the 4th century AD, other Bulgar tribes broke loose from their settlements in central Asia to m ...

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Bulgars, Bulgars - History, Bulgars - Migration to Europe, Bulgars - Establishment of Great Bulgaria, Bulgars - Subsequent migrations, Bulgars - List of Bulgar tribes

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York has had a Christian presence from the 300s. The first church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfred ascended to the see of York; he put in place efforts to repair and renew the structure. The attached school and library were established and by the 8th century were some of ...

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York Minster, York Minster - History, York Minster - The Towers and Bells, York Minster - External link

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In 655,1 Penda invaded Bernicia with a large army, reported to have been thirty legions strong, with thirty royal or noble commanders (duces regii, as Bede called them), including rulers such as Cadfael ap Cynfeddw of Gwynedd and Aethelhere of East Anglia. Penda also enjoyed the support of Aethelwald, the king of Deira and the successor of Oswine, who had been murdered on Oswiu's orders in 651; Bede says Aethelwald acted as Penda's guide during his invasion. The cause of ...

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Penda of Mercia, Penda of Mercia - Descent beginning of reign and battle with the West Saxons, Penda of Mercia - Alliance with Cadwallon and the Battle of Hatfield Chase, Penda of Mercia - During the reign of Oswald, Penda of Mercia - Maserfield, Penda of Mercia - Campaigns between Maserfield and the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Relations with Bernicia; Christianity and Middle Anglia, Penda of Mercia - Final campaign and the battle of the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Aftermath and historical appraisal, Penda of Mercia - Notes

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With the defeat at the Winwaed, Oswiu came to briefly dominate Mercia, permitting Penda's son Peada to rule its southern portion. Two of Penda's other sons, Wulfhere and Aethelred, later ruled Mercia in succession after the overthrow of Northumbrian control in the late 650s. The period of rule by Penda's descendants came to an end with his grandson Ceolred's death in 716, after which power passe ...

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Penda of Mercia, Penda of Mercia - Descent beginning of reign and battle with the West Saxons, Penda of Mercia - Alliance with Cadwallon and the Battle of Hatfield Chase, Penda of Mercia - During the reign of Oswald, Penda of Mercia - Maserfield, Penda of Mercia - Campaigns between Maserfield and the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Relations with Bernicia; Christianity and Middle Anglia, Penda of Mercia - Final campaign and the battle of the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Aftermath and historical appraisal, Penda of Mercia - Notes

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York Minster has three towers, the two west towers holding bells and clock chimes. The north-west tower contains Great Peter (216 cwt or 10 .8 tons) and the six clock bells (the largest weighing just over 60 cwt or 3 tons). The south-west tower holds 14 bells (tenor 59 cwt) hung for change ringing and 11 chiming bells (tenor 23 cwt) which are rung from a clavier in the ringing chanber. The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour. The change ringing bells are rung regularly on Sunda ...

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York Minster, York Minster - History, York Minster - The Towers and Bells

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Despite these apparent instances of warfare, relations between Penda and Oswiu were probably not entirely hostile during this period, since Penda's daughter Cyneburh married Alhfrith, Oswiu's son, and Penda's son Peada married Alhflaed, Oswiu's daughter. According to Bede, who dates the events to 653, the latter marriage was made contingent upon the baptism and conversion to Christianity of Peada; Peada accepted this, and the preaching of Christianity began among the Middle Angles, whom he ruled. Bede wrote that Penda tolerated the preaching ...

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Penda of Mercia, Penda of Mercia - Descent beginning of reign and battle with the West Saxons, Penda of Mercia - Alliance with Cadwallon and the Battle of Hatfield Chase, Penda of Mercia - During the reign of Oswald, Penda of Mercia - Maserfield, Penda of Mercia - Campaigns between Maserfield and the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Relations with Bernicia; Christianity and Middle Anglia, Penda of Mercia - Final campaign and the battle of the Winwaed, Penda of Mercia - Aftermath and historical appraisal, Penda of Mercia - Notes

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York Minster has three towers, the two west towers holding bells and clock chimes. The north-west tower contains Great Peter (216 cwt or 10 .8 tons) and the six clock bells (the largest weighing just over 60 cwt or 3 tons). The south-west tower holds 14 bells (tenor 59 cwt) hung for change ringing and 11 chiming bells (tenor 23 cwt) which are rung from a clavier in the ringing chanber. The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour. The change ringing bells are rung regularly on Sunda ...

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York Minster, York Minster - History, York Minster - The Towers and Bells, York Minster - External link

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