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- Historical capital of China (5927 bytes)
1: Numerous cities have been the '''[[capital]] of [[China]]''' during the course of history.
3: * [[Anyang]] was the capital during the Yin period of [[Shang Dynasty]]: calle...
5: ...g'' and briefly ''Peiping'') was and has been the capital of various Chinese governments including (sorted ...
8: ...lled Yanjing (燕京 Yānjīng "capital of Yan")
10: ...ngdu (中都 Zhōngdū "central capital") - January 6th capital (4599 bytes)
7: ...t rulings finding no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
19: ...ction results, the situation outside escalated. A fraction of the crowd breached Capitol security, bre...
22: ...eading to hundreds of arrests and charges ranging from trespassing to assault.
34: ...apitol Incident serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of democratic processes and the importance...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
19: capital = [[Mexico City]] |
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[Se...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was declared, by [[Miguel Hidalgo y Costi... - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1:
23: | '''[[Capital]]'''
40: | From [[Spain]]
63: ...amics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica]]
65: ...panish territory of [[New Spain]]. The provincial capital was in [[Cartago, Costa Rica|Cartago]]. - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
209: * [[List of current and former capital cities within the United States]]
210: * [[List of capitals of subnational entities]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ... after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...y Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...οταμία, translated from [[Old Persian]] ''Miyanrudan'' "the Land betwee...
6: ...Iran's Heart" and the metropol [[Ctesiphon]], the capital of [[Iran|Persia]], was situated in Mesopotamia.
8: These civilizations arose from earlier settlements and cultures which were amo... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
18: ...pine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]], [[Babylon]] and [[Ecbatana]]. Thi... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...am]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]...
8: ... all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn...
13: ...ney to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite closely...
17: ...joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muham...
20: ...ity)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed by [[Timur]]. Next were ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...rket]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientif...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
8: ...wers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "eyes". After a little early experimentat...
9: ...ge:Jonisk1.png|thumb|right|An archaic Greek Ionic capital, in ''Nordisk familjebok'', 1910]]
12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
21: # The area around the capital or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' ex... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ... of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language, [[Kirun...
3: ...he poorest and most conflict-ridden countries in Africa and in the world. Its small size belies the ma...
10: ... = Unit鬠Travail, Progr賠([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
13: ...[Kirundi language|Kirundi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
14: capital = [[Bujumbura]] | - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
11: ...led by this treachery that he seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival ...
19: .... He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He ...
35: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra VII&nbs... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
11: ...dunum]] ([[Colchester]]), the former Trinovantian capital, which had been settled with Roman veterans and w...
19: ...cianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's [[freedman]] Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as ...
31: ...y of the Roman conquest of Britain makes this far from certain. - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
9: ...r]].<br>———<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of ...
10: ...r>941-945, is [[623]]. The year of birth deducted from the<br>[[Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Govern...
14: ...r Shengshen''' (聖神皇帝) from [[690]] to [[705]]. Her rise and reign has been...
16: ...ut other places have been proposed, including the capital [[Chang'an]].
20: ... new beautiful concubine would divert the emperor from the concubine [[n饝] Xiao. Modern historians d... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...g as Duchess of Courland (now western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Best...
17: ...er and her policies. Although she didn't move the capital back to [[Moscow]], she spent most of her time at...
19: ...ving a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Bal...
24: ...gitimate southern boundaries which was brought to fruition by [[Catherine the Great]]. Anna's reign sa... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
45: ...y (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[United Future New Zealand | United Future]] a...
47: ... in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]], first as Minister ...
53: ...ficial residence [[Premier House]] while in the [[capital]] or at her private residence in her Auckland [[e... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ...
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