The term lyceum is still used in some (mostly European) countries when referring to a type of school. Lyceum - Greece & Cyprus. The word lyceum is in use for secondary education (Greek: Ενιαίο Λύκειο) specifically for the last three high school classes in Greece and Cyprus. Lyceum - France. The French word for secondary education, lycée, derives from Lyceum. (see Secondary education i ...

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List of twin towns and sister cities - Bahamas. Nassau - Albany, New York, USA - Lagos, Nigeria List of twin towns and sister cities - Barbados. Bridgetown - Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada (July, 2004 twinning) Bridgetown - Wilmington, North Carolina, USA (June 28, 2004) Speightstown - Reading, UK (January 21, 2003) List of twin towns and sister cities - Canada. Abbotsford, British Columbia - ...

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List of twin towns and sister cities - Armenia. Djermuk - Saint-Raphaël (Var), France (1994) Yerevan - Los Angeles, California, USA (2005) List of twin towns and sister cities - Azerbaijan. Baku - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1972) List of twin towns and sister cities - Cambodia. Preah Seihanu - Seattle, Washington, USA Phnom Penh - Long Beach, Californi ...

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United Kingdom, List of twin towns and sister cities - Ukraine, List of twin towns and sister cities - North America, List of twin towns and sister cities - Bahamas, List of twin towns and sister cities - Barbados, List of twin towns and sister cities - Canada, List of twin towns and sister cities - Cuba, List of twin towns and sister cities - Costa Rica, List of twin towns and sister cities - Dominican Republic, List of twin towns and sister cities - Greenland, List of twin towns and sister cities - Guatemala, List of twin towns and sister cities - Jamaica, List of twin towns and sister cities - Mexico, List of twin towns and sister cities - Nicaragua, List of twin towns and sister cities - Trinidad and Tobago, List of twin towns and sister cities - United States, List of twin towns and sister cities - Oceania, List of twin towns and sister cities - Australia, List of twin towns and sister cities - New Zealand, List of twin towns and sister cities - South America, List of twin towns and sister cities - 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List of twin towns in the United Kingdom - Dundee. Dundee - Orleans, France (1946); Würzburg, Germany (1962); Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Nablus, Palestine; Zadar, Croatia; Alexandria, Virginia, USA (1974) List of twin towns in the United Kingdom - Edinburgh. Edinburgh - Aalborg, Denmark (1964); Dunedin, New Zealand; Florence, Italy (1964); Munich, Germany; Nice, France List of twin towns in the United Kingdom - Fife. Kirkca ...

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List of twin towns and sister cities - Algeria. Béjaïa - Brest, France (2001) Constantine - Grenoble, France (1999) List of twin towns and sister cities - Cameroon. Limbe - Seattle, Washington, United States List of twin towns and sister cities - Egypt. Alexandria - Cleveland, Ohio, United States Cairo - İstanbul, Turkey List of twin towns and sister cities - Ethiopia. Axum - Denver, Colorado, United States (1995)See also:

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Asia, List of twin towns and sister cities - Armenia, List of twin towns and sister cities - Azerbaijan, List of twin towns and sister cities - Cambodia, List of twin towns and sister cities - China PRC, List of twin towns and sister cities - Georgia, List of twin towns and sister cities - Indonesia, List of twin towns and sister cities - India, List of twin towns and sister cities - Iran, List of twin towns and sister cities - Israel, List of twin towns and sister cities - Japan, List of twin towns and sister cities - Kazakhstan, List of twin towns and sister cities - Kyrgyzstan, List of twin towns and sister cities - Kuwait, List of twin towns and sister cities - Malaysia, List of twin towns and sister cities - Palestine, List of twin towns and sister cities - Philippines, List of twin towns and sister cities - Russia, List of twin towns and sister cities - South Korea, List of twin towns and sister cities - Taiwan ROC, List of twin towns and sister cities - Tajikistan, List of twin towns and sister cities - 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United Kingdom, List of twin towns and sister cities - Ukraine, List of twin towns and sister cities - North America, List of twin towns and sister cities - Bahamas, List of twin towns and sister cities - Barbados, List of twin towns and sister cities - Canada, List of twin towns and sister cities - Cuba, List of twin towns and sister cities - Costa Rica, List of twin towns and sister cities - Dominican Republic, List of twin towns and sister cities - Greenland, List of twin towns and sister cities - Guatemala, List of twin towns and sister cities - Jamaica, List of twin towns and sister cities - Mexico, List of twin towns and sister cities - Nicaragua, List of twin towns and sister cities - Trinidad and Tobago, List of twin towns and sister cities - United States, List of twin towns and sister cities - Oceania, List of twin towns and sister cities - Australia, List of twin towns and sister cities - New Zealand, List of twin towns and sister cities - South America, List of twin towns and sister cities - 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As it was undergoing fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced the unexpected irruption of an irresistible foreign foe coming from the mysterious regions of the Far East. For our sins, says the Russian chronicler of the time, unknown nations arrived. No one knew their origin or whence they came, or what religion they practiced. That is known only to God, and perhaps to wise men learned in books. The East Slavic princes first heard of them from the wild nomadic Polovtsians, who usually pillaged the Russian settlers on the frontier ...

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The vast Mongol hordes of some 150,000 mounted archers, commanded by Batu Khan and Subutai, crossed the Volga River and invaded Volga Bulgaria in the autumn of 1236. It took them a year to extinguish the resistance of the Volga Bulgarians, Kypchaks, and Alani. In November 1237, Batu Khan sent his envoys to the court of Yuri II of Vladimir and demanded his submission. A month later, the hordes besieged Ryazan. After six days of the bloodiest battle, this capital was totally annihilated, never to be restored. Alarmed by the news, Y ...

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The provisional Russian government at first kept Nicholas, Alexandra, and their children confined in the Alexander Palace 15 miles from St. Petersburg at Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar's Village). Attempting to remove them from the vicinity of the capital and so from possible harm, the Kerensky government moved them east to Tobolsk, in Siberia in August 1917. They remained there through the Bolshevik October Revolution in November 1917, but were then moved to Red Army and Bolshevik-controlled Yekaterinburg. The Tsar and his family, including the gravel ...

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Poitiers was the birthplace of influential 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault. Poitiers - Twin towns. Poitiers is twinned with: Northampton, United Kingdom Marburg, Germany Lafayette, United States Coimbra, Portugal Yaroslavl, Russia ...

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Heller was brought up by his grandfather, Moses Heller, chief rabbi of the German communities. He was sent to Friedburg, where he studied under Jacob Günzburg. Thence he was invited to Prague by a rich merchant, Aaron Ashkenazi, who later became his father-in-law. There he studied under Judah Löw ben Bezaleel, head of the yeshiva of Prague. Heller's second master was Solomon Ephraim Lenczyza, chief rabbi of Prague. At Prague, Heller perfected his rabbinical studies. In 1597, when he was scarcely eight ...

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Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serb nationalist association known as the Black Hand, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Nicholas vacillated as to Russia's course. The rising ideas of the Pan-Slav movement had led Russia to issue treaties of protection to Serbia. Nicholas wanted neither to abandon Serbia to the ultimatum of Austria-Hungary, nor to provoke a general war. In a series of letters exchanged with the German Kaiser (the so-called "Willy and Nicky correspondence") the ...

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Further complicating domestic matters was the matter of the succession. Alexandra bore him four daughters before their son Alexei was born on August 12, 1904. The young heir proved to be afflicted with hemophilia, a disease that prevents blood clotting properly, which at that time was virtually untreatable and usually led to an untimely death. Because of the fragility of the autocracy at this time, Nicholas and Alexandra chose not to divulge Alexei's condition to anyone outside the royal household.In fact, there were many in the Imperial hou ...

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The influence of the Mongol invasion on the territories of Kievan Rus' was uneven. Centers such as Kiev never recovered from the devastation of the initial attack. The Novgorod Republic continued to prosper, however, and new entities, the cities of Moscow and Tver, began to flourish under the Mongols. Although the Russian army defeated the Golden Horde at Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of the Russian-inhabited territories, along with demands of tribute from Russian princes, continued ...

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Nicholas succeeded Alexander III in 1894. On 26 November 1894, Nicholas married Alexandra at the Winter Palace. They had five children: Grand Duchess Olga (15 November 1895 - 17 July 1918) Grand Duchess Tatiana (10 June 1897 - 17 July 1918) Grand Duchess Maria (26 June 1899 - 17 July 1918) Grand Duchess Anastasia (18 June 1901 - 17 July 1918) Tsarevich Alexei (12 August 1904 - 17 July 1918) His coronation in Moscow in 1896 was overshadowed by the Khodynka catastrophe, which ...

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Nicholas' relations with the Duma were not good. The First Duma, with a majority of Kadets, almost immediately came into conflict with him. Although Nicholas initially had a good relationship with his relatively liberal prime minister, Sergei Witte, Alexandra distrusted him, and as the political situation deteriorated, Nicholas dissolved the Duma. Witte, unable to grasp the seemingly insurmountable problems of reforming Russia and the monarchy wrote to Nicholas on 14 April 1906 resigning his office (however, other accounts have said that Wit ...

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First mentioned in the year 862 as an already important settlement, by the 13th century Rostov became capital city of one of the most prominent Russian principalities. It was incorporated into Muscovy late in the 15th century. Even after it lost its independence, Rostov was still an ecclesiastic center of utmost importance (from 988 it was the see of one of the first Russian bishoprics). In the 14th century the bishops of Rostov became archbishops and late in the 16th century, metropolitans. It is to one of those metropolitans, Iona (Jonah) Sysoevich (ca. 1607-1690) that the town owes its main landmark, the kremlin that many regar ...

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