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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
30: ...Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visi... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
1: ...mage:IbnBattuta.jpg|thumb|250px|Ibn Battuta (1304-1377).]]
2: ...,700 km). This journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to pr...
4: ...bn Batuda''' or '''ibn Battutah'''. He is also sometimes known by the appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', ...
6: ...onal in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the world ...
8: ...ful, but in many others there is no way to know whether he is reporting or story-telling. The followin... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ... in China. Other causes include collusion with Tibetan lamas in depriving Chinese of their lands, pape...
8: ...ring this period, He joined a Buddhist secret society known as the White Lotus. Later, as a strong-wi...
14: ...army, once again, had to pass the traditional competitive examinations in the [[Chinese classic texts|...
16: ...r and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu was succeeded by his grandso...
18: ...t of servants for the emperor), capsized by a tablet in his palace stipulating: "Eunuchs must have not... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...ar was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war...
8: ...he [[Vikings]] of [[Rollo of Normandy|Rollo]] to settle in a part of his kingdom known as [[Normandy]]...
10: ...land and England stood to become very wealthy by retaking it. The war was both a "[[Nationalism|nation...
13: ...ty in medieval European history). In 1314, the Capetian king [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]] died, l...
15: ...s X), but precedent for only male heirs had been set. When Philip V died in [[1322]], his daughters we... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...nting]] during the [[1450s]], including a [[type metal]] alloy and oil-based inks, a mould for casting...
9: ...berg. The Koreans and Chinese knew about movable metal types at the time, but due to the complex natur...
11: It is not clear whether Gutenberg knew of these existing techniques or...
14: ... had to be hand-carved, Gutenberg concluded that metal type could be reproduced much more quickly once...
23: ...ly already purchased before the printing was completed, so it is doubtful that any copies were ever so... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
1: ...nside their territory, usually giving autonomy to ethnic minorities or isolated areas.
18: ...1387;ն Ղարաբաղ)
30: | [[Tibet]] (P?p;nbsp;– Xīz/西藏)
43: | [[Abkhazia]] (Apsny – Apkazeti – Abchazija/Абх
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87: | [[Ingushetia]] (Ingu?etija/Ингуше
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