Muhammad al-Idrisi - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Muhammad Al-idrisi: Encyclopedia - Muhammad Al-idrisi
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - The People
The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murcia: Encyclopedia Ii - Murcia - History
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 t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Languages In The Territory Of Kvenland Today
As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Historical Usage Of The Term
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Kvens Today - The Finns Of Northern Norway
In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Wars In Kvenland
According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murcia: Encyclopedia Ii - Murcia - Sights And Monuments
The Cathedral was built between 1394 and 1465 in Castilian Gothic style. Its tower, only completed in 1792, shows a mixture of styles: th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murcia: Encyclopedia Ii - Murcia - Education
Murcia has two Universities: a public university, the University of Murcia, founded in 1912, and a Catholic University (Universidad Cató...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - History
The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Varangian And Other Viking Connections
The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Kvens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, "founder of Norway", and his ancesto...   » Read the article