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The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore — also known as the Basilica di Santa Maria della Neve and Basilica Liberiana in the Italian language and Saint Mary Major Basilica in the English language — is one of five great ancient Catholic basilicas of Rome: the St. John Lateran, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, St. Peter and St. Paul outside the Walls and that of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Liberian Basilica, as it was then called, is one of the tituli, presided over by a patron—in this case Pope Liberius—th ...

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• Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Bethlehem Crypt

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Bessarabia or Bessarabiya (Basarabia in Romanian, Besarabya in Turkish) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia annexed by Russia in 1812. The remaining Moldavia united with Wallachia in 1859 in what would become the Kingdom of Romania. In 1918, Bessarabia declared its independence from Russia and at the end of World War I, it united with the Kingdom of Romania. USSR annexed Bessarabia in the beginning of World War II (see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and a ...

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• Bessarabia - Part of Romania
• Bessarabia - World War II
• Bessarabia - Part of the Soviet Union
• Bessarabia - Rise of the Independent Moldova
• Bessarabia - Population
• Bessarabia - Economy

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Ulysses can refer to: The name Odysseus in the Latin language, used in Roman culture Ulysses - Literature and media. Ulysses, James Joyce's influential 1922 novel A 1967 movie based on the novel, Ulysses "Ulysses", a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses 31, an anime television program produced by DiC Entertainment ulysses, an indie rock band Ulysses, a vampire in Mar ...

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For the most part, the four principal parts of a verb are sufficient information to form all other conjugations of the verb. The tables below show the conjugations of verbs in all four declensions and several irregular verbs. Latin conjugation - First conjugation -are: amo amare amavi amatum to love. Non-finite forms Present infinitive: amare Perfect infinitive: amavisse Future infinitive: amaturus esse See also:

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Old Church Slavonic is evidenced by a relatively small body of manuscripts, written for the most part, in the late 10th and the early 11th century. The language has a Southern Slavic basis with an admixture of Western Slavic features inherited during the mission of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius to Great Moravia (863 - 885). The only well-preserved manuscript of Moravian recension, the Kiev Folia, is characterised by the replacement of some Southern Slavonic phonetical and lexical features with Western Slavic ones. Manuscripts written in the medieval Bulgari ...

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Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic - History, Old Church Slavonic - Script, Old Church Slavonic - Basis and local influences, Old Church Slavonic - Later recensions Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic - Authors, Old Church Slavonic - Nomenclature, Old Church Slavonic - Modern Slavic nomenclature

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Main article: Definition of terrorism Although the term is often used imprecisely, there have been many attempts by various law enforcement agencies and public organizations to develop more precise working definitions of terrorism. The United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention has proposed a short legal definition —that "[an act of terrorism is] the peacetime equivalent of a war crime." A US court found that "the malice associated with terrorist attacks transcends even that of premeditated murder." Fla ...

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Terrorism, Terrorism - Etymology, Terrorism - Key criteria, Terrorism - Causes, Terrorism - Separatism, Terrorism - Claims of responsibility, Terrorism - Perpetrators, Terrorism - Terrorist groups, Terrorism - Lone wolves, Terrorism - State sponsors, Terrorism - Countries Combating Terrorism, Terrorism - Tactics, Terrorism - Responses to terrorism, Terrorism - Terrorism and immigration in Europe, Terrorism - Target-hardening, Terrorism - Preemptive neutralization, Terrorism - Domestic intelligence and surveillance, Terrorism - Military intervention, Terrorism - History, Terrorism - Global trends, Terrorism - Examples of major incidents

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English has many loanwords. In 1973, a computerised survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff. Their estimates for the origin of English words were as follows: French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3% Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24% Germanic languages, including Old and Middle English: 25% Greek: 5.32% No etymology given or unknown: 4.03% Derived from proper names: 3.28% Al ...

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Loanword, Loanword - Classes of borrowed words, Loanword - Beyond words, Loanword - Loanwords in English, Loanword - Affixes, Loanword - Other languages, Loanword - Reborrowing

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Due to the long-term diglossy between Latin and Greek, Medieval Greek borrowed various linguistic elements from the Latin language, part of which survived in Modern Greek. A number of Latin words and popular phrases can be traced in Medieval Greek are the following (bold marking signifies assimilation to the language and survival to Modern Greek): Common phrases: άνω φηλικίσιμε! < Annos Felicissimos! βαίνε < Bene (Venisti!) του βίκας! < tu vincas! ιν μούλτος άννος! < i ...

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Medieval Greek, Medieval Greek - History, Medieval Greek - Evolution from Hellenistic to Medieval Koine, Medieval Greek - Vocabulary, Medieval Greek - Phonology

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Latin spelling and pronunciation - Pronouncing a dead language. Being a "dead" language, when Latin words are spoken in a "living" language today, there is ordinarily little or no attempt to pronounce them as the Romans did. Myriad systems have arisen for pronouncing the language — at least one for each language in the modern world whose speakers learn Latin. In most cases, Latin pronunciation is adapted to the phonology of the person's own language, although obviously this me ...

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Normandy - Languages. The Norman language, a regional language, is spoken by a minority of the population, especially in the Cotentin peninsula in the far West and in the Pays de Caux in the East. Many place names show the influence of this Norse-influenced oïl language; for example -bec (stream), -fleur (river), -hou (island), -tot (homestead). Normandy - Arts. Main article is ...

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Normandy, Normandy - Population, Normandy - Geography, Normandy - Regions, Normandy - Rivers, Normandy - History, Normandy - Channel Islands, Normandy - Culture, Normandy - Languages, Normandy - Arts, Normandy - Religion, Normandy - Food and drink, Normandy - Symbols

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There are five declensions of nouns in Latin. Latin declension - First declension a. Nouns of this declension usually end in –a and are typically feminine. The predominant letter in the ending forms of this declension is a. Note that Latin does not have articles and as such there is no grammatical distinction between a girl and the girl; the same word, puella, represents both. See also:

Latin declension, Latin declension - Grammatical cases, Latin declension - Syncretic trends, Latin declension - Noun declensions, Latin declension - First declension a, Latin declension - Second declension o, Latin declension - Third declension mixed, Latin declension - Fourth declension u, Latin declension - Fifth declension e, Latin declension - Adjective declensions, Latin declension - Pronoun declensions, Latin declension - Demonstrative Pronouns, Latin declension - Personal Pronouns

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It is deeply controversial, and in fact discussed, whether Gallurese should be included in the Corsican language, as a minor form or a dialect of this one, or instead included (as now is) in Sardinian. An evident similarity, indeed, exists between Corsican (especially southern dialects) and Gallurese, and as evident as the distance from the bordering Sardo logudorese. Undoubtedly the two idioms are in some eleme ...

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Gallurese, Gallurese - Typical constitutional elements of Gallurese, Gallurese - Gallurese and its Corsican heritage, Gallurese - Hypothesis on Gallurese's development

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There are four conjugations in Latin. A verb either falls into one of these conjugations or is considered irregular. In Latin, a verb is defined by its person, number, tense, mood and voice. This gives rise to a large number of forms of each verb - 120, in fact. They are generally learnt in groups of 6, corresponding to a particular mood, tense, and voice. Each verb has three stems - a present stem, a perfect stem, and a supine stem, to which various endings are added to make individual forms of verbs. Lat ...

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Although the term is often used imprecisely, there have been many attempts by various law enforcement agencies and public organizations to develop more precise working definitions of terrorism. The United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention has proposed a short legal definition —that "[an act of terrorism is] the peacetime equivalent of a war crime." A US court found that "the malice associated with te ...

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Terrorism, Terrorism - Etymology, Terrorism - Key criteria, Terrorism - Causes, Terrorism - Separatism, Terrorism - Claims of responsibility, Terrorism - Perpetrators, Terrorism - Terrorist groups, Terrorism - Lone wolves, Terrorism - State sponsors, Terrorism - Tactics, Terrorism - Attack tactics, Terrorism - Funding, Terrorism - Communication, Terrorism - Responses to terrorism, Terrorism - Terrorism and immigration in Europe, Terrorism - Target-hardening, Terrorism - Preemptive neutralization, Terrorism - Domestic intelligence and surveillance, Terrorism - Military intervention, Terrorism - History, Terrorism - Global trends, Terrorism - Examples of major incidents

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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 - So-called 'Bavarian Dynasty'

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The term Rebirth (Rinascita), to indicate the flourishing of artistic and scientific activities starting in Italy in the mid-1300's, was first used by the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari in the Vite, published in 1550. The term Renaissance is the French translation, used by French historian Jules Michelet, and expanded upon by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (both in the 1860s). Rebirth is used in two ways. First, it means rediscovery of ancient classical texts and learning and their applications in the a ...

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Renaissance, Renaissance - Historiography, Renaissance - Multiple Renaissances, Renaissance - Critical views, Renaissance - Start of the Renaissance, Renaissance - Italian Renaissance, Renaissance - Northern Renaissance

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In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore extensions were created as needed. These take the form of modified symbols by changing the shape or adding diacritics, by joining several letters together as ligatures, or by completely new forms. These new forms are given a place in the alphabet by defining a collating sequence. This is language dependent as shown in the pertinent section below. See also:

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A patriarchal basilica, Santa Maria Maggiore is often personally used by the pope. Most notably, the pope presides over the annual Feast of the Assumption of Mary, celebrated each August 15 at the basilica. A high, canopied altar dedicated to the pope is used by the pope alone — except for a choice few priests including the archpriest. The pope gives charge of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore to an archpriest, usually an archbishop made cardinal in consistory. The archpriest was fo ...

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Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Patriarchal basilica, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Origin, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Architecture, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - List of major artworks in the basilica, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore - Bethlehem Crypt

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The Tuscan dialect has homogenous features inside itself but all subdialects have some small differences among themselves. Tuscan dialect - Phonetics. Main article: Tuscan gorgia A phonetic phenomenon is the intervocalic weakening of the Italian soft g IPA [ʤ] (g in George) and soft c IPA [ʧ] (ch i ...

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Tuscan dialect, Tuscan dialect - Subdialects, Tuscan dialect - Speakers, Tuscan dialect - Dialectal features, Tuscan dialect - Phonetics, Tuscan dialect - Morphology, Tuscan dialect - Syntax, Tuscan dialect - Lexicon, Tuscan dialect - External link

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Originally, the Islamic Ottoman Empire didn't have a concept of private ownership of land. Rights to till the land (tapija) were given to deserving military commanders (spahi), and after their death this right was delegated to another person. However, considering the special circumstances of the border-line province of Bosnia, the Ottoman sultan made an exception allowing for tapijas to be hereditary. This resulted in a de facto feudal system. Bosnian landlords (begs) quickly acquired more land than they could pos ...

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Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ethnic background of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Brief history of religions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Transformation of ethnicity to religion its cause and course

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List of Ancient Rome-related topics - Regional History. Roman Britain Roman invasion of Britain History of Greek and Roman Egypt Roman and Byzantine Greece ...

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