Al-Idrisi (b.1100-d.1165 or 1166) full name Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi was an Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in Sabtah, then belonging to the Almoravid Empire (nowadays Ceuta, Spain) and died in Sicily, or maybe in Sabtah. In 1154 al-Idrisi made a large, south-oriented mappa mundi known as the Tabula Rogeriana and an accompanying book, named Geography. Taken together, they were named Nuzhat al-Mushtak by Roge ...

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The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century Finnish origin. In modern terminology, however, only those of Finnish background living in Northern Norway are refered to as Kvens. The towns and communities around the Varanger Fjord in notheastern Norway still today possess the most visible and strong Kven (Cwen, Kveeni) culture, traditio ...

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Murcia was founded with the name of Medinat Mursiya in A.D. 825 by Abd ar-Rahman II, emir of Al-Andalus. The Arabs, taking advantage of the course of the river Segura, created a complex network of irrigation channels that made the town prosperous and is the predecessor of the modern irrigation system. The Arab traveller Muhammad al-Idrisi described it in the 12th century as populous and strongly fortified. After the fall of the caliphate of Cordova, Murcia passed successively under the rule of Almería, Toledo and Seville. In 1172 it was taken by the Almohades, and from 1223 to 1243 it became the ...

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As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland in the areas that once was referred to as Kvenland. Those languages are Sami, Kainu (official name accepted legally in 2005, a.k.a. Kainun kieli - i.e. the language on Kainu - and Kven), Meänkieli (a.k.a. Tornedalen) and Finnish. The four Finno-Ugric (a.k.a. Fenno-Ugric, Finnic or Uralic) languages are tought in the schools in the area of the historic Kv ...

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98 A.D., the Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus wrote about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded history. (In reality he is thought to have meant the Lapps). To add to the confusion, the Viking Age Norwegians often called the Samis either Skridfinns or Finns, to separate them from the Kvens, who in reality actually were - of course - also Finns, more so than the Samis, though they too are members of the Finnic (a.k.a. Finn ...

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In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northern Norway, who have settled there before the 20th century. After the Middle Ages and the migration of the so called Tornedalians the next larger migration wave up north - this time again reaching the coastal areas of today's Norway - happened in the early 18th century. The following Kven migration to Northern Norway - and to the areas that were a part of the Republic of Finland up till 1944 - took place in the beginning of the 19th ...

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According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, near Troms (Tromsa), as well as the Icelandic sagas - such as e.g. the Egil's saga by Snorri Sturluson - the Finnish Kvens (a.k.a. Kven people or Kvens, Cwens or Quens) were in charge of the large northernmost territories of the Scandinavian Peninsula during the 9th century AD, i.e. during the period referred to in agas in question. In 1230 AD, in the introduction to the Orkneyinga Saga, Fundinn Noregr discusses the kings of Finland and K ...

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The Cathedral was built between 1394 and 1465 in Castilian Gothic style. Its tower, only completed in 1792, shows a mixture of styles: the first two stories were built in Renaissance style (1521-1546), the third one is Baroque, and the bell pavillion has Rococo and Neoclassical influences. The main façade (1736-1754) is considered a masterpiece of the Spanish Baroque style. Other noteworthy buildings in the square in front of the Cathedral (Plaza Cardenal Belluga) are the colourful Bishops palace (18th century) and a controversi ...

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Murcia has two Universities: a public university, the University of Murcia, founded in 1912, and a Catholic University (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia), founded in 1996. Old University Building Old University (cloister) ...

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The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the historic Kvenland territories have located along and around big bodies of waters, such as the Gulf of Bothnia, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea and the White Sea, and by the large fjords such as the Varanger Fjord, and by large lakes such as the Lake Inari, and by large rivers such as the Kvenland river (a.k.a. River Kalix in Swedish or Kainuujoki in Finnish), the Torne ...

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The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Kvens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, "founder of Norway", and his ancestors who lived in Kvenland. The Islandish sagas have thorough descriptions about the life and accomplishments of the Kvens. The newest archeological research and findings - such as the approximately millennium old jewlery findings made in the Lake Inari district in Northern Finland in the summer of 2005 - seem to support the lin ...

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