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  1. Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
    13: ...e Empresses: Woman and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204''. Routledge, 1999.
  2. Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
    9: ...1169]]), and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]] ([[1121]]-[[1204]]). Melisende's authority was not passed over for...
    21: Hugh allied himself with the Muslim city of [[Ascalon]], and was able to hold off t...
    37: ...der states again, and the loss of a sympathetic Muslim state was a blow that later monarchs of Jerusal...
    55: ...nd Ioveta the Abbess of Bethany, had Amalric of Nesle appointed as patriarch of Jerusalem. In [[1160]]...
  3. Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
    3: ..., [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the w...
    14: ...le territory. Predictably, the Turks attacked and slaughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decis...
    16: ...e divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces. For reasons unknown, likely the Germans...
    18: ...duced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of [[Oleron]] in [[1160]], and then into Engla...
    36: ...g his son to flee. Henry the Young wandered aimlessly through Aquitaine until he caught [[dysentery]] ...
  4. Greece (54754 bytes)
    1: ...nd boundaries with [[Bulgaria]], the [[Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]], and [[Albania]] to the...
    50: ...[Mediterranean]] basin, feature a vast number of islands.
    72: ...century progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period of uncer...
    74: ...d [[Asia Minor]] were brought in as settlers. The Slavs were either driven out or assimilated. By the ...
    80: ... not to last: During the Crusading epochs between 1204 to 1458, Greece was overrun by warrings Byzantine...
  5. Crusade (28507 bytes)
    2: ...o re-capture the [[Holy Land]] from the [[Islam|Muslims]], but some were directed against other Europe...
    7: ...e Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing [[Muslim]] attacks thus fell on ready ears.
    9: ...ianity|Christians]] in their wars against the [[Muslim]]s, granting both a papal standard (the ''vexil...
    13: ...s such as the Vikings and Magyars. However, the Muslim armies' successes were putting strong pressure ...
    15: ...[[Western countries|West]] about the cruelty of Muslims toward Christian pilgrims; these rumors then p...
  6. Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
    37: | [[1204]]
    80: ...early enemies, the [[Persian Empire|Persians]], [[Slavs]] and [[Bulgars]]. Theological crises, such as...
    84: ...Africa]] were permanently incorporated into the Muslim Empire in the [[7th century]], a process which ...
    104: ... of emperor [[Romanus IV]] in [[1071]] by [[Alp Arslan]], sultan of the Seljuk Turks, most of that pro...
    110: ...tins." The [[Venice|Venetians]] were especially disliked, even though their ships were the basis of th...
  7. Castle (27805 bytes)
    59: ...ers (which were of a type very different from the slight projections of the shell-keep and rectangular...
    61: ...rc;teau Gaillard fell to [[Philip Augustus]] in [[1204]] after a strenuous defence, and the success of t...
    73: ...al castles and increase their number, while jealously keeping in check those of the barons. But in the...
    97: ...ilitary Architecture of the Middle Ages'' was translated by M Macdermott in 1860.
  8. Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
    40: ...unts of this period are few, works of poetry, legislation and engineering from this period provide imp...
    46: ...of the ''gens'' [[Claudius (gens)|Claudia]], only slightly less ancient than the Julians. Their three...
    52: ...rius himself retired to live at his villa on the island of [[Capri]] in AD 26, leaving administration ...
    101: ...he Commodian Army. Commodus was strangled in his sleep in 192, a day before he planned to march into ...
    118: ...ulpture]] sacked from a [[Byzantine]] palace in [[1204]], Treasury of [[Mark the Evangelist|St Mark's]],...
  9. Venice (22017 bytes)
    2: ...01-01). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy [[lagoon]] along the [[Adriatic S...
    10: ...re, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], including [[Cyp...
    12: ...with Venetian aid) seized [[Constantinople]] in [[1204]] and established the [[Latin Empire]]. Considera...
    14: ...tal structure was a mix of Byzantine and [[Islam|Islamic]] systems, but the social order was entirely ...
    29: ... the [[Venice Arsenal|Arsenal]]. Galley [[slavery|slaves]] did not exist in medieval Venice, the oarsm...
  10. Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
    3: ...[[Mongol]] invaders from the East, defending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the ...
    5: Under Alp Arslan's successor [[Malik Shah I]] and his [[vizier]]...
    12: * [[Alp Arslan]] bin Chaghri [[1063]]-[[1072]]
    26: * [[Arslan Shah]] [[1161]]-[[1176]]
    38: * [[Arslan Shah I]] [[1101]]-[[1142]]
  11. Parthenon (12682 bytes)
    11: ...ly for optical reasons. ''Entasis'' refers to the slight swelling of the columns as they rise, to coun...
    13: ... and are 10.4 metres high. The corner columns are slightly larger in diameter. The stylobate has an up...
    27: ...sack of the city during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204.
    39: ...orce the Museum to do so (which would require legislation).
    45: ...thenon are environmental. Athens has grown enormously since [[World War II]] and has major problems wi...
  12. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    9: ...ute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]]...
    11: ...506]], taking part in expeditions to the [[Spice Islands]]. In [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the ...
    13: ..., Magellan was accused of illegal trade with the Islamic [[Moors]]. He had also been involved in confl...
    22: ...e Islands), the key to the strategic and tremendously lucrative spice trade. He allegedly declared him...
    37: ...slands]], Magellan arrived at the [[Cape Verde]] Islands, where they set course for Cape St. Augustine...
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
    490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
    652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
    705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}}
    774: *[[Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld]], (1879-1918){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
  14. Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
    3: The '''Church of the Holy Wisdom''', variously known as '''Hagia Sophia''' (Άγι&...
    16: ...[[Eastern Orthodox]], [[Roman Catholic]], and [[Muslim]] worlds alike.
    20: ...[[dome]] with a diameter of 31 meters (102 feet), slightly smaller than the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]...
    32: ...presentation has never been completely banned in Islamic art, figures of humans in a mosque's decorati...
    36: ...of Hagia Sophia remains a sensitive subject. The Islamic calligraphic displays suspended from the main...
  15. Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
    29: ... art, because many Christians came to accept the Islamic view that the depiction of the human form was...
    41: ...ak state confined to the Greek peninsula and the islands of the [[Aegean]].
  16. Constantinople (4125 bytes)
    7: ...aptured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]] in [[1204]] (April 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean E...
  17. Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
    62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
  18. List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
    43: *[[Justinian II]] Rhinotmetus (the Slit-nosed) (668-711, ruled [[685]] - [[695]]) &ndas...
    82: *[[Basil II]] Bulgaroktonus (the Bulgar-slayer) (958-1025, ruled [[976]] - [[1025]]) –...
    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]])
  19. Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
    20: ...litical, social, and spiritual stability and in a slowness of cultural and institutional change up to ...
    24: ...e in [[Silvermine Bay]] ([[Mui Wo]]) on [[Lantau Island]] and later in what is today [[Kowloon City]],...
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