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- Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
1: '''Eudocia Macrembolitissa''' ([[1021]] - [[1096]]) was...
3: ...idered co-emperor with his younger brother, while Eudocia ran the administration of the empire.
5: ... the [[Varangian|Varangian Guard]] then compelled Eudocia to vacate the throne in favour of Michael an...
7: ...to marry her. This plan did not come to pass, and Eudocia died sometime after the accession of [[Alexi...
9: ...s the younger]] was very close to the family, and Eudocia considered him an "uncle." According to Psel... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
9: ...1169]]), and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]] ([[1121]]-[[1204]]). Melisende's authority was not passed over for...
39: ...de must have seemed a kind of paradise to western Europeans. Eleanor, sure of herself and with the ner... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ... one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen c...
6: ...n arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William IX of A...
8: She was raised in one of Europe's most cultured courts, the birthplace of [[c...
10: ...right and officially the most eligible heiress in Europe. These were the days when kidnapping an heir...
12: ...sisted on taking part in the [[Crusades]] as the feudal leader of the soldiers from her duchy. The sto... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ts culture has proven especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
37: | '''[[Currency]]''' || [[Euro]] (€)<sup>1</sup>
39: | '''[[Time zone]]'''<br/> - in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
40: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br/>[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal...
50: ...nikí Dimokratía''}}) is a country in [[southern Europe]], situated on the southern end of the [[Balk... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...m|Muslims]], but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[...
7: ...combined with the relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of the [...
9: ...ghts]] and some [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. I...
13: ...ties in the Holy Land of Christendom, and western Europeans were not much concerned with the loss of f...
25: ...l as a powerful pincer movement on all of Western Europe, created a powerful motive to respond to [[By... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
37: | [[1204]]
51: ...th century when French authors such as [[Montesquieu]] began to popularize it. Hieronymus himself was ...
88: ...eligion from the former imperial lands in western Europe, although the southern Byzantine provinces di...
92: ...zu]]) that emphasized stealth, surprise, swift maneuver and the marshalling of overwhelming force at t...
108: ...d, began to reestablish the army on the basis of feudal grants (''[[pronoia|pri]]'') and made sign... - Castle (27805 bytes)
2: ..."castle" designations, relics of the [[feudalism|feudal]] age, often remained attached to the dwelling...
4: ...[[History of Japan|Japanese history]], where the feudal [[Daimyo]] inhabited them.
10: ...is can be seen by many of the typical features of European castles - e.g. portcullises, battlements an...
23: ==Medieval European castles==
46: ...nd was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]]. - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
47: [[Image:Coliseum_rome.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http:/...
66: ...is mother and his tutors, particularly Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]. However, as he gr...
78: ...t was he who first commissioned the [[Roman Colosseum]]; he also built a [[forum]] whose centerpiece w...
88: ...Rome, wild spectacles in the newly finished Colosseum, and continuing the public works projects of his...
118: ...ulpture]] sacked from a [[Byzantine]] palace in [[1204]], Treasury of [[Mark the Evangelist|St Mark's]],... - Venice (22017 bytes)
12: ...with Venetian aid) seized [[Constantinople]] in [[1204]] and established the [[Latin Empire]]. Considera...
14: ...c]] systems, but the social order was entirely [[feudal]]. Church and various private properties were ...
22: ...ant secret reports of the politics and rumours of European courts, providing fascinating information t...
24: ...me perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]], [[architectur...
33: ...roops were still recruited from the lagoon, plus feudal levies from Dalmatia and Istria. In times of e... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ...role in medieval history by creating a barrier to Europe against the [[Mongol]] invaders from the East...
7: Despite several attempts to reunite the Seljuks in the centuries following Malik ...
73: ...Rüm|Süleyman II]] (Suleiman) [[1196]]-[[1204]]
74: * [[Kilij Arslan III]] [[1204]]-[[1205]] - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
27: ...sack of the city during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204.
31: ...thenon, but otherwise it was not damaged further. European visitors in the 17th century testified that...
37: By the late eighteenth century many more Europeans were visiting Athens, and the picturesque ...
39: ...h governments have been unwilling to force the Museum to do so (which would require legislation). - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...died in the [[Philippines]] and never returned to Europe, 18 members of the crew and one ship of the f...
57: ...imes to see whether we were all in the boats. Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, a...
64: ...(eye-glasses were only just becoming available in Europe).
100: ...n among Magellan's expedition were also the first Europeans to observe the following:
113: ... Lerner Publications Co., Minneapolis ISBN 0-8225-1204-1 - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
232: *[[Pierre Bourdieu]], (1930-2002){{fn|R}}
414: *[[Tadeusz Czezowski]], (1889-1981)
438: *[[Gilles Deleuze]], (1925-1995){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
445: *[[Denys the Carthusian]] (or ''Denys de Leeuwis''), (1402-1471){{fn|R}}
451: *[[Paul Deussen]], (1845-1919) - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
3: ... [[church]] converted to a [[mosque]], now a [[museum]], in [[Istanbul]], formerly [[Constantinople]]....
32: ...imperial ceremonies. During the Latin Occupation (1204-1261) the church became a Roman Catholic cathedra...
34: ...a was secularized and turned into the Ayasofya Museum. Nevertheless, the mosaics remained largely plas... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
3: ...e despite being in other respects part of western European culture. It can also be used for the art of...
15: ...[Romanos II]] (reigned 959-963) and the [[Empress Eudokia]] being crowned by Christ, a striking illust...
17: ...believe influenced the [[Renaissance]] in western Europe.
39: ...etians means that the basilica is also a great museum of Byzantine artworks of all kinds.
41: ...antine culture were brought to an abrupt end in [[1204]] with the sacking of Constantinople by the knigh... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
3: ...tantinople), where most gold coins circulating in Europe came from and were associated with.
7: ...aptured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]] in [[1204]] (April 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean E... - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
121: ...1</sup>Pr is [[stable isotope|stable]] with 82 [[neutron]]s
149: ...hat more resistant to [[corrosion]] in air than [[europium]], [[lanthanum]], [[cerium]], or [[neodymiu... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ...nal Roman imperial title of "Augustus" with "Basileus", the Greek word for "Emperor", and discontinued...
98: ...[[1071]]) – married Constantine X's widow [[Eudocia Macrembolitissa]]
107: *[[Isaac II Angelus]] (1156-1204, ruled [[1185]] - [[1195]]) – great-grandso...
109: ...exius IV Angelus]] (1182-1204, ruled [[1203]] - [[1204]]) – son of Isaac II
110: ...Angelus]] (restored with Alexius IV, [[1203]] - [[1204]]) - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...] from [[960]]-[[1279]]. Its founding marked the reunification of China for the first time since the f...
16: ...00 inhabitants at this point: far larger than any European city.
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