The Norse discovery was documented in the 13th century Icelandic Sagas and was corroborated by recent L ' Anse aux Meadows archeological evidence.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

Near Kayenta, Arizona, Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago has been studying a group of Ancient Pueblo villages that relocated from the canyons to the high mesa tops during the late 13th century.

He asserts that isolated communities relied on raiding for food and supplies, and that internal conflict and warfare became common in the 13th century.

In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

The primary sources regarding Asgard come from the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Icelandic Snorri Sturluson, and the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from a basis of much older Skaldic poetry.

Snorri's interpretation of the 13th century foreshadows 20th century views of Indo-European migration from the east.

* Wikisource: Prose Edda / Gylfaginning ( The Fooling Of Gylfe ) by Sturluson, Snorri, 13th century Edda, in English.

The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

Active contact between the Wajin ( the ethnically Japanese ) and the Ainu of Ezochi ( now known as Hokkaido ) began in the 13th century.

A rare High Medieval image of Alfred, 13th century

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

The Ottoman tax record and census from 1596 indicates that Bethlehem had a population of 1, 435, making it the 13th largest village in Palestine at the time.

From a rural village in the early Middle Ages Delft developed to a city, that in the 13th century ( 1246 ) received its charter.

The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingør date back to the 13th century and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingør was then, was a town of a certain importance.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

Until the 13th century, the village farming communities were mainly on the northern plains around Anuradhapura and then Polonnaruwa, but they later shifted to the southwest.

Its farming activity and its location on the road from Paris to Dreux and Normandy brought prosperity to the village, culminating in the end of the 13th century, the so-called " century of Saint Louis ", famous for the prosperity of northern France and the building of Gothic cathedrals.

The 13th century village of Castroreale, home to a tower from a medieval castle built by King Frederick II of Aragon, is located nearby.

A small house in the village of Magalas, Hérault, has a date of 13th century carved into its stonework.

The Church of St. Benedict lies half a mile east of the village and dates back to the 13th Century.

The formation of the village Rijswijk took place in the 13th century, and its history was dominated by presence of mansions and estates of the nobility and affluent.

Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.

The village name has been variously spelled as Ramelle or Redmelle ( 11th century ), Redmelde ( 12th century ), Radmelde ( 13th century ) and Radmill ( 18th century ).

The village was made part of Brussels in the 13th century.

As from the 13th century, there was in the east of the current village center, a mining farm located, in which activities started from the 18th century with a systematic exploration.

In the 13th century the village gradually became a town.

Excavations begun in 1989 at Faraglioni have unearthed what was a large prehistoric village dating from the 14th to the 13th century BC.

Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn village, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns, was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314 — one of the pivotal battles of the 13th / 14th century Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland and England.

12th Parachute Battalion had been tasked with securing the village of Le Bas de Ranville, which it did so by 04: 00, whilst 13th Parachute Battalion was to secure the town of Ranville, which it achieved around the same time, albeit against heavier resistance than that encountered by the other battalion.

Potential references to the village include a mention of the " widow of Ben al -' Anani " in a 12th century Genizah document and to Kfar Hanan in the 13th century.

The Crusaders established a fortress named Casal Humberti there in 1099 and there are descriptions of it and the village of az-Zeeb by Arab chroniclers in the 12th and 13th centuries, just prior to and during the rule of the Mamluks in the region.

In the 13th century the village gradually turned into a town.

The church of St John the Baptist is the oldest building in the village, dating from the 13th century

In the 13th century the village became a " Soke ", which meant it was independent of the local Hundred Court at Barford.

During the Mamluk period ( 13th – 14th centuries ), it was a Muslim village and a mosque was built on the ruins of the synagogue.

Under any circumstance, during the end of the 13th century, Stockholm quickly grew to become not only the largest city in Sweden, but also the de facto Swedish political centre and royal residence.

From the 13th century on the counts of Holland used The Hague as their administrative centre and residence when in Holland.

In the first half of the 13th century Wrocław even became the political centre of the divided Polish kingdom.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

* the Collegiata di San Secondo ( 13th century ) in the old medieval centre next to the Palazzo Civico.

In the 13th century, when Groningen was an important trade centre, its inhabitants built a city wall to underline its authority.

Besides these buildings which were part of the official structures of the bishopric ; an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the Jacobikerk ( dedicated to Saint James ), founded in the 11th century, with the current Gothic church dating back to the 14th century ; the Buurkerk ( Neighbourhood-church ) of the 11th century parish in the centre of the city ; Nicolaichurch ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas ), from the 12th century and the 13th century Geertekerk ( dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles ).

In the late 13th century a school arose at Béziers, once the centre of pre-Albigensian Languedoc and of the Trencavel lordships, in the 1260s – 80s.

The current centre of the town was probably developed as early as the first half of the 13th century.

This development accelerated in the 13th century as the town became a centre of commerce for both the East and West.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was a flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool and a famous weaving and clothing manufacturing industry.

* The water-encircled Schoten castle started as a farm in the 13th century, and is now converted into a local cultural centre.

The Bodø Cathedral was built in 1956, representing post-war architecture, whereas the Bodin Church just outside the city centre dates from the 13th century, representing a typical medieval stone church.

The town grew to an important commercial centre for iron ore but also for valerian during the 13th and 14th century.

The Cobb was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, allowing it to develop as both a major port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards.

The arms were Quarterly of nineteen, 1st, Azure, a lion barry Argent and Gules ( Landgrave of Thuringia ); 2nd, Gules, an escarbuncle Or and a shield at the centre point Argent ( Cleves ); 3rd, Or, a lion rampant Sable ( Meissen ); 4th, Or, a lion rampant Sable ( Jülich ); 5th, Argent, a lion rampant Gules crowned Azure ( Berg ); 6th, Azure, an eagle displayed Or ( Palatinate of Saxony ); 7th, Or, two pales Azure ( Landsberg ); 8th, Sable, an eagle displayed Or ( Palatinate of Thuringia ); 9th, Or, semé of hearts Gules a lion rampant Sable crowned of the second ( Orlamünde ); 10th, Argent, three bars Azure ( Eisenberg ); 11th, Azure, a lion passant per fess Or and Argent ( Tonna in Gleichen ); 12th, Argent, a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper ( Burgraviate of Altenburg ); 13th, Gules plain ( Sovereign rights ); 14th, Argent, three beetles ' pincers Gules ( Engern ); 15th, Or a fess chequy Gules and Argent ( Marck ); 16th, Per pale, dexter, Gules, a column Argent crowned Or ( Roemhild ), sinister, Or, on a mount Vert, a cock Sable, wattled Gules ( Hannenberg ); 17th, Argent three chevronels Gules ( Ravensberg ); and over all an inescutcheon barry Or and Sable, a crown of rue ( or a crancelin ) in bend Vert ( Saxony ).

The story of the Pilgrim's Way passing through Reigate is a myth, although in the 13th century a chapel to St Thomas was built in the town centre for the use of Canterbury pilgrims.

The hill fort was the centre of the northernmost district ( Estonian: kihelkond ) in the historical Estonian county of Sakala and also one of the centres of Estonians ' fight against the conquest of German Sword Brethren in the 13th century.

The present castle building dates from the 13th century, and provided the centre around which the town grew.

In the 13th and most of the 14th century the region was a regional centre of the Hohenzollern state.

Ormskirk lies on sloping ground on the side of a ridge, whose highest point is above sea-level, at the centre of the West Lancashire Plain, and has been described as a " planned borough ", laid out in the 13th century.

In the centre of the castle enclosure are the domestic buildings ; these are mostly of the 13th century, with upper parts of the 16th century.

From 1000 to the early 13th century a market settlement ( the future town centre ) grows below the Bratislava Castle ( first written reference in 1151 ) and becomes an important centre in early 13th century.