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- Cairo (12536 bytes)
36: The sack of [[Baghdad]] in [[1258]] heightened the importance of the city and it be...
45: ...ehemet Ali]] with the introduction of a railway connection to [[Alexandria]] in [[1851]]. Significant ...
47: ...newly redesigned city of [[Baron Haussmann|Haussmann]] and, funded by a booming [[cotton]] trade, deci...
49: ...sha Mubarak]] and designed by the French urban planner [[Pierre Grand]]. A new area of luxurious villa...
51: ...was dominated by westerners, however, and city planners tended to emphasize [[Christianity|Christian]]... - Greece (54754 bytes)
72: ...id not extend far beyond the coast. From about [[Anno Domini|AD]] [[600]] the old cities of Greec...
82: ... been for centuries the centre of Christendom, spanning the period from the ancient classical world of...
87: ...om [[Mani Peninsula|Mani]] of [[Peloponnese|Peloponnesus]] were the most resilient mountain clans thro...
90: ... The Russian ex-minister of foreign affairs, [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], himself a Greek noble from the ...
95: ...Asia Minor. Soon afterwards, the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] was signed, fixing the borders to this date. A... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...esota)|St. Thomas University]] in Saint Paul, [[Minnesota]], are named for him, as is Aquinas College ...
9: ...ght back to his parents at the castle of San Giovanni, where he was held a captive for a year or two t...
14: ...at an important chapter of his order at [[Valenciennes]]. At the solicitation of [[Pope Urban IV]] (th...
16: ...why he had stopped writing, Aquinas replied, "I cannot go on...All that I have written seems to me lik...
18: ...d, with a large head and receding hairline. His manners showed his breeding; he is described as refine... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ...rs to confuse Iran with Iraq; so in 1959 Pahlavi announced that both Persia and Iran can be used inter...
11: ...e, the [[Scythian]]s. The region of Parsuash was annexed by Sargon of Assyria around 719 BC. Eventuall...
17: Cyrus' son, [[Cambyses II]], annexed [[Egypt]] to the Persian Empire. The empire t...
19: ...ad]] by improving ancient trade routes, thereby connecting far reaches of the empire. He moved the adm...
41: ...I]]'s military leadership kept Parthia from overrunning Persia itself, but his successes alarmed the b... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
25: ...ingle [[Maltese falcon]], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicil...
29: ...oman Emperor|Charles V]]). The Ottomans were outgunned, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the...
36: ... by the [[King of Prussia]] in [[1812]]. The "JohanniterOrden" was restored as a Prussian Order of Kni...
50: ...ley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens Sankt Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues u...
61: ...''Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta'''''. They are... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ... think of their empire as "Roman" for over a millennium.
116: ...dore II Lascaris]] (1221-1258, ruled [[1254]] - [[1258]]) – son of John III
117: *[[John IV Lascaris]] (1250-1305, ruled [[1258]] - [[1261]]) – son of Theodore II
121: *[[Andronicus II]] Palaeologus (1258-1332, ruled [[1282]] - [[1328]]) – son of M... - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
16: ...amongst many other things. As a result of these innovations (and the concurrent ''agricultural revolu...
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