Fulda

Fulda - Early Middle Ages. The Benedictine monastery of Fulda (in what is now Hessen, Germany), was founded in 744 by Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, as one of Boniface's outposts in the reorganization of the church in Germany, and a base from which missionaries accompanied Charlemagnes armies in their political and military campaign to destroy Heathen Saxony. The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, the son of Charles Martel. The support of the Mayors of the Palace and later, the ...

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Fulda, Fulda - History, Fulda - Early Middle Ages, Fulda - Miscellaneous, Fulda - People

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There are three species of European cockchafers: The Common Cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha The Forest Cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani Melolontha pectoralis (Megerle von Mühlfeld 1812; or Germar 1824), which is very rare and occurs only in south-western Germany. The cockchafer should not be confused with the similar European Chafer (Rhizotrogus majalis), which has a completely different life cycle, nor with the June Beetles (Phyllophaga spp.) ...

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Cockchafer, Cockchafer - Taxonomy, Cockchafer - Description, Cockchafer - Life cycle, Cockchafer - Pest control and History

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Political parties Elections The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest conservative political party in Germany. A right-of-center Christian party, the CDU is also a member of the International Democrat Union. In Bavaria, the CDU does not exist; its role is played by the Christian Social Union (CSU). The CDU cooperates with the CSU at the federal level; although each party maintains its own structure, the two form a common caucus in the German Parliament and do not run opposing ...

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• Christian Democratic Union Germany - History
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Philosophy
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Internal Structure
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Members
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Data about state party group
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Party strongholds
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Relationship with the CSU
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Think-tank Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Chairmen of the Christian Democratic Union 1950-present
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - Parliamentary chairmen/chairmen of the CDU/CSU group in the national parliament
• Christian Democratic Union Germany - German Chancellors from CDU

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Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifacius)(German: Bonifatius), (c. 672 - June 5, 754), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in Devon, England, was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. Saint Boniface - Early Life. Born at Crediton, Devon . He was of good family, and it was somewhat against his father's wishes that he devoted himself at an early age to the monastic life. He received his theological training in the Ben ...

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• Saint Boniface - Early Life
• Saint Boniface - First Mission to Frisia
• Saint Boniface - Thor's Oak and the Conversion of the Northern German Tribes
• Saint Boniface - Boniface and the Carolingians
• Saint Boniface - Last Mission to Frisia
• Saint Boniface - Trivia

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Carolingian or Caroline minuscule is a script developed as a writing standard in Europe so that the Roman alphabet could be easily recognized by the small literate class from one region to another. It was used in Charlemagne's empire between approximately 800 and 1200. Codices, pagan and Christian texts, and educational material were written in Carolingian minuscule throughout the Carolingian Renaissance. The script developed into Blackletter and became obsolete, though it forms the basis of more recent scripts. C ...

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• Carolingian minuscule - Creation
• Carolingian minuscule - Characteristics
• Carolingian minuscule - Spread
• Carolingian minuscule - Role in Cultural Transmission
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Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg - Geography. Bamberg lies on an open plain on the Regnitz, 3 km above its junction with the Main River, and 63 km north of Nuremberg by railway. Like Rome, Bamberg was built on seven hills, each crowned by a church. Bamberger Symphoniker (*) – founded in 1946 by Bohemian WWII refugees, including former members of the Germa ...

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• Bamberg - Population
• Bamberg - History
• Bamberg - Historical population
• Bamberg - Settlers from Bamberg
• Bamberg - Sights
• Bamberg - Cathedral
• Bamberg - Neue Residenz
• Bamberg - Other sights
• Bamberg - Beer
• Bamberg - Education
• Bamberg - Born in Bamberg
• Bamberg - Famous Denizens

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The Carolingian Renaissance refers to the often-rejected but just as frequently resuscitated idea that a flowering of literature, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical and scriptural studies occurred during and shortly after the reign of Charlemagne, that this flowering was consciously nurtured by the court, and that this flowering was connected to the renovation of the title Emperor for Charlemagne in the year 800. It is to be distingu ...

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• Carolingian Renaissance - Carolingian art
• Carolingian Renaissance - People
• Carolingian Renaissance - Places

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Athanasius Kircher (sometimes spelt Kirchner) (May 2, 1601?–27 November 1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology and medicine. He made an early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs. One of the first people to observe microbes through a microsocope, he was thus ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Other contributions include his invention of the magic lantern which ...

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• Athanasius Kircher - Egyptology
• Athanasius Kircher - Sinology
• Athanasius Kircher - Geology
• Athanasius Kircher - Medicine
• Athanasius Kircher - Other
• Athanasius Kircher - Influence
• Athanasius Kircher - Bibliography

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Walafrid (also Walahfrid), surnamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. "squint-eyed") (d. August 18, 849), German monk and theological writer, was born about 808 in Swabia. Walafrid Strabo - Life. Walafrid was educated at the monastery of Reichenau, near Constance, where he had for his teachers Tatto and Wettin, to the dying visions of the latter he devotes one of his poems. Then he went to Fulda, where he studied for some time under Hrabanus Maurus before returning to Reichenau, of which monaste ...

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Events Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court. (approximate date) Saint Sturm establishes the abbey of Fulda. (or 744?) Artabasdus is Byzantine Emperor. After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. Births Charlemagne, king and emperor of the Franks ( ...

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The rune poems list the letters of a runic alphabet with a short verse characterizing each one. Three different rune poems have been preserved, an Icelandic, a Norwegian and an Anglo-Saxon one. The Icelandic and Norwegian poems both give the order of the sixteen runes of the Younger Futhark, ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚬ ᚱ ᚴ ᚼ ᚾ ᛁ ᛅ ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛘ ᛚ ᛦ, with slightly differing letter names, while the Anglo-Saxon poem has ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚩ ᚱ ᚳ ᚷ ᚹ ᚻ ᚾ ᛁ ᛄ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ...

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• Rune poem - Fe
• Rune poem - Ur
• Rune poem - Þurs
• Rune poem - As
• Rune poem - Reidh
• Rune poem - Kaun
• Rune poem - Hagall
• Rune poem - Naud
• Rune poem - Is
• Rune poem - Ar
• Rune poem - Sol
• Rune poem - Tyr
• Rune poem - Bjarken
• Rune poem - Madr
• Rune poem - Logr
• Rune poem - Yr
• Rune poem - Anglo-Saxon only runes
• Rune poem - Gyfu Wynn
• Rune poem - Ger Eoh Peordh Eolh
• Rune poem - Eh
• Rune poem - Ing Ethel Daeg
• Rune poem - Ac Ash Yr Ior Ear
• Rune poem - Abecedarium Nordmannicum
• Rune poem - Special characters

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John XVI (originally John Piligato or Philagathus) (died AD 1013?) was an Italian antipope between 997 and 998. He was chosen by Crescentius and the nobles of Rome, in revolt against the will of the youthful Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, the cousin of Pope Gregory V. John and Gregory were rivals until the council of Pavia in 997. The revolt of Crescentius was decisively suppressed by Otto III, who marched upon Rome. John XVI fled, but the emperor's troops pursued and captured him, cut off his nose and ears, cut out his to ...

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The Chatti (also Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of the Weser river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder, Fulda and Werra river regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Cassel, though probably somewhat more extensive. According to Tacitus (Histories iv. under AD 70 [1]), among them were the Batavii, until an internal quarrel drove them out, to ...

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• Chatti - Chasuarii

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Arles (Arle in Provençal) is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, of which it is a sous-préfecture, in the former province of Provence. Population (1999): 50,513. Arles - Geography. The Rhône river divides itself in two arms in Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is administratively part of Arles, the latter is the largest commune in France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area i ...

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• Arles - Medieval Arles
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• Arles - Economy
• Arles - Sights
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• Arles - People
• Arles - Twin towns

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Bad Hersfeld is a spa town in the north-eastern region of Hessen in Germany. It is located on the Fulda River and it is capital of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Nearest other towns are Kassel in the north, Fulda in the south an Eisenach in the east. Position: 50°52' north, 9°42' east. Elevation: 200 to 408 m. Area: 73.82 km². Population: about 30650. Town districts: Bad Hersfeld (the old town), Eichhof, Asbach, Heenes, Hohe Luft, Johannesberg, Beiershausen, Allme ...

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Codex Sangallensis 878 is a manuscript kept in the library of the Abbey of St. Gall. It dates to the 9th century and probably originates in Fulda. It contains mainly excerpts of grammatical texts, including the Ars minor and Ars maior of Aelius Donatus, the grammar of Priscian, the Etymologiae of Isidore of Sevilla and the grammar of Alcuin. Furthermore, it contains a presentation of the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and the Scandinavian Younger Futhark, the latter in the form of a ...

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• Codex Sangallensis 878 - The Abecedarium Nordmannicum

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Wieringen (population: 8,451 in 2004) is a municipality consisting of the former island of Wieringen in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. There are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer. The municipality covers an area of 212.50 km² (of which 185.73 km² is water) and includes these towns, villages and townships: Dam, De Haukes, De Hoelm, Den Oever, Hippolytushoef, Hollebalg, Noordburen, Oosterklief, Oosterland, Smerp, ...

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• Wieringen - History

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822 - Events. Abd-ar-rahman II becomes ruler of Umayyad Spain. Begin of the power struggle between Byzantine Emperor Michael II and Thomas. Rabanus Maurus becomes abbott of Fulda. Gim Heon-chang launches a short-lived rebellion in Silla. 822 - Births. 822 - Deaths. Tahir ibn Husayn, founder of the Persian Tahirid dynasty Gim Heon-chang, Silla aristocrat and rebel leader.