During the European scramble for Africa, Queen Victoria signed a Treaty of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, known to Europeans as " Old Calabar ", on 10 September 1884.

* Old French in continental western European countries and in the Crusader states.

Genres like high fantasy, Westerns and science fiction space opera often have specific settings, such as a pseudo-Medieval European setting, the Old West, or outer space.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland ( kings Sigismund I the Old and Sigismund II Augustus ) an immense cultural flowering.

" This theory of the Roman origins of many European folk traditions related to Diana or Hecate was explicitly advanced at least as early as 1807 and is reflected in numerous etymological claims by lexicographers from the 17th to the 19th century, deriving " hag " and / or " hex " from Hecate by way of haegtesse ( Anglo-Saxon ) and hagazussa ( Old High German ).

* The start of the Dog Days according to The Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

It is also known as the European Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, or Old World Kestrel.

The following season, Manchester United claimed its first Cup Winners ' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1 – 0 in the final at Old Trafford.

Old-growth forest | Old growth European Beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro.

In the 11th century, Old Norse was the most widely spoken European language, ranging from Vinland in the West to the Volga in the East.

The voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492 to 1502 resulted in permanent contact with European ( and subsequently, other Old World ) powers, which lead to the Columbian exchange.

In Old Norse, ( or, plural ; feminine, plural ) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.

The Old Norse name is still used for pines in some modern north European languages, in Danish, fyr, in Norwegian fura / fure / furu, Swedish, fura / furu, and Föhre in German, but in modern English, fir is now restricted to Fir ( Abies ) and Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga ).

* Agriculture appears around in the Balkans, see Old European Culture.

* Mediterranean Old European cultures.

Though perhaps most known as one of the foremost military and sporting weapons used by European knights, the use of lances was spread throughout the Old World wherever mounts were available.

Somewhat more conservative is the second Polish theatre with national status-the National Old Theatre in Kraków, the only one in Poland belonging to the Union of European Theatres.

A falchion (; Old French: fauchon ; Latin: falx, " sickle ") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.

The Modern French word bourgeois derived from the Old French burgeis ( walled city ), which derived from bourg ( market town ), from the Old Frankish burg ( town ); in other European languages, the etymologic derivations are the Middle English burgeis, the Middle Dutch burgher, the German Bürger ( burgess ), and the Polish burżuazja, which occasionally is synonymous with the intelligentsia.

The Civilization of the Goddess articulated what Gimbutas saw as the differences between the Old European system, which she considered goddess-and woman-centered ( gynocentric ), and the Bronze Age Indo-European patriarchal (" androcratic ") culture which supplanted it.

The sudden strategical importance for the European powers gained by what is now Central Switzerland was an important factor in the formation of the Old Swiss Confederacy beginning in the late 13th century.

Athletic then drew Manchester United and won 3 – 2 in the first leg at Old Trafford, going on to knock the 3-times European champions out of the tournament with an impressive 2 – 1 victory at home.

Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.

The Old Hungarian script is a contemporary writing system of the Hungarians.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The Old Turkic script evident in epigraphy from the 8th century likely also has its origins in the Aramaic script.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ).

* Vilhelm Thomsen, decipherer of the Old Turkic script

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The Latin script owes its existence to the Etruscan alphabet, which was adapted for Latin in the form of the Old Italic alphabet.

The Old Hungarian script, the so-called " Rovás alphabet " The country switched to using the Latin language and alphabet under king Stephen I of Hungary ( reigned: 997-1038 ), and as late as 1844, Latin remained the official language of Hungary.

Hungarians also had their own writing system, the Old Hungarian script, but no significant texts remain from that time, as the usual medium of writing, wooden sticks, is perishable.

The Old Turkic script ( also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script ) is the alphabet used by the Göktürk and other early Turkic Khanates during the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.

Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century.

Further Turkic Nestorian manuscripts, that have the same " rune-like " duct as the Old Turkic script, have been found especially in the oasis of Turfan and in the fortress of Miran.

Sometimes it can be recycled: Old paint may be usable for a primer coat or an intermediate coat, and paints of similar chemistry can be mixed to make a larger amount of a uniform color.

Sometimes his name is turned into the Frankish name Rodolf ( us ) or Radulf ( us ) or the French Raoul, that are derived from it .< ref group =" Note "> Rou is the result of a series of French regular phonetic changes from Hrólfr > Rolf > Rouf to Rou ( see Lepelley 15-16 ) and Norman names in-ouf and-ou ( t ): I ( n ) gouf and Ygout < Old Norse Ingulfr / Ingólfr ( Old Danish Ingulf ).

Historic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in the Florence area include the Edwin E. Benedict House, a deteriorating house on the Siuslaw River that is said to have been Ken Kesey's inspiration for the Stamper House in his novel Sometimes a Great Notion, Heceta Head Lighthouse and Keepers Quarters, Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park Historic District, the Siuslaw River Bridge, and the William Kyle and Sons Building in Old Town.

Sometimes a language that has changed so much that linguists describe it as a different language ( or different stage ) is called " extinct ", as in the case of Old English, a forerunner of Modern English.

Sometimes, visitors unfamiliar with the former layout of the Old Summer Palace are misled to believe that it consisted primarily of European-style palaces.

" Sometimes ' High Concept ' Is Just Plain Old Awful.

Old Lodge Skins sighs and says, " Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't ".

Sometimes the language used in the formation of a place name is unclear ; for example, some names may be plausibly derived from either Old English or Celtic roots.

Sometimes certain clubs have often been connected with religious denominations, such as both Spurs and Ajax with Judaism, or the Old Firm Rangers F. C.

Sometimes called " The Old Capitol ," the Historic Capitol, built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built.