A European Armorial: An Armorial of Knights of the Golden Fleece and 15th Century Europe.

From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.

* Count Sabbat-He was part of Latveria's royalty during the 15th Century.

* Vlad Draasen-He was a member of Latveria's royalty during the 15th Century.

His works were published several times in the 15th Century and a copy of a 1465 version was sold in 2000 for more than $ 1m.

By the 15th Century, pattens became popular by both men and women in Europe.

The Battle of Gilboa, by Jean Fouquet, the protagonists depicted anachronistically with 15th Century armour

" Even in the 15th century, Lorenzo Valla described it as the Century of Lead and Iron and later Cardinal Baronius as the Leaden Century or Iron Century.

* In China, written work begins on the Siku Quanshu, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history ( surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century ).

15th Century ), and Ramacharitamanas by Tulasidas in Awadhi which is an eastern form of Hindi ( c. 16th century ).

From the earlier part of the 15th Century, Portuguese expeditions organized by Prince Henry the Navigator had been crawling down the African coastline, principally in search for west African riches ( notably, gold ).

Though European mariners, such as John Cabot and Alonso Sanchez in the 15th Century and the Norse 500 years still earlier, explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence the first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, during his second trip to Canada in 1535, with the help of Iroquoian chief Donnacona's two sons.

Photo of a 15th Century map showing Ionia.

This name has 15th Century origins, however from the 20th century the name has been more commonly attributed to the prominent role Cork played in the Irish War of Independence ( 1919 – 1921 ) when it was the scene of considerable fighting ; in addition, it was an anti-treaty stronghold during the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ).

The medieval cooperative election of the mayor and councillors led to the creation of a nearly hereditary oligarchy by the 15th Century.

Although contracted forms of the name are attested since the 15th Century, it was not until this period that the modern form of the name came into common use.

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Its leader Fernand Braudel devoted the first volume – called The Structures of Everyday Life – of his major work, Civilization and Capitalism 15th – 18th Century to the largely silent and invisible world that existed below the market economy.

Photo of a 15th Century map showing Bithynia.

* 15th Century Folk Song: 1452-Anonymous for viola, cello and piano

Photo of a 15th Century map showing Pamphylia.

Grote Kerk or St. Nicholaaskerk, of cathedral dimensions, was probably built at the beginning of the 15th Century.

The Lady Chapel and Bishop Robert's Chapel were added in the 13th Century in the Early English style, and in the 15th century, the choir section was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, including the fan-vaulting Sherborne is still famous for, the remodelling by William Smyth, under Abbot John Brunyng ( 1415 – 1436 ).

Until the 15th century, La Rochelle was to be the largest French harbour on the Atlantic coast, dealing mainly in wine, salt and cheese.

During the 15th – 16th centuries, the main occupations of the Tersky Coast population were Atlantic salmon fishing, seal hunting, and the extraction of salt from the sea water.

The town's development was aided by the discovery of extensive salt deposits in the vicinity during the 15th century.

Vessels in the 15th century included the Trinite which traded between Ireland and Bristol, and others carrying salt and other cargo from La Rochelle in France.

A salt pan is mentioned at Warkworth in the 12th century ; in the 13th century the salt industry flourished at the mouth of the river Blyth, and in the 15th century formed the principal occupation of the inhabitants of North and South Shields.

During its golden age in the 15th century, Sukiennice was the source of a variety of exotic imports from the East – spices, silk, leather and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ( raad ) applied to the electric ray.

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.

He is regarded as a major primary source for 15th century European history.

Beginning in the 1920s Wyandotte was a major source of toy production, with the All Metal Products Company founded in 1920 and located in Wyandotte on Sycamore Street between 14th and 15th streets.

Contrary to Froissart's view, the early Scottish chroniclers — Andrew of Wyntoun and Walter Bower ( who both utilised a source that was nearly contemporary with Robert II )— and later 15th and 16th century Scottish chroniclers and poets showed ' Robert II as a Scottish patriotic hero, a defender of the integrity of the Scottish kingdom, and as the direct heir to Robert I '.

Nevertheless the Portuguese João Bermudes, the self-described Patriarch of Ethiopia, provided the first description of the Tis Issat Falls in his memoirs ( published in 1565 ), and a number of Europeans who lived in Ethiopia in the late 15th century like Pêro da Covilhã could have seen the river long before Paez, but not reached its places of source.

In the 14th century, they were sold in the English market under the label Reysyns de Corauntz, and the name raisins of Corinth was recorded in the 15th century, after the Greek harbor which was the primary source of export.

From the 8th to the 15th centuries, no extant source documents Shaolin participation in combat ; then the 16th and 17th centuries see at least forty extant sources attest that, not only did monks of Shaolin practice martial arts, but martial practice had become such an integral element of Shaolin monastic life that the monks felt the need to justify it by creating new Buddhist lore.

Although cottage industries, both in boyar and peasant households, were still the main source of clothing, food and construction, specialized production, such as weaving and pottery, started to develop by the middle of the 15th century.

The taille became a major source of royal income ( roughly half in the 1570s ), the most important direct tax of pre-Revolutionary France, and provided for the growing cost of warfare in the 15th and 16th centuries.

This suggested that in the 15th century the prestige of Srivijaya still remained and was used as the source for political legitimacy in the region.

Techniques of composition varied throughout his life: he sometimes used the cantus firmus technique, already archaic by the end of the 15th century, and also the paraphrase technique, in which the source material appears elaborated, and in other voices than the tenor, often in imitation.

Some were a source of trouble and abuse in the 15th and early 16th century.

Wall Guns were used in India as early as the 17th century and there is a Burmese source from the late 15th century mentioning the use of " cannon and muskets " by the defenders of the besieged town of Prome.

When the lake began to shrink in the course of the 15th century, a dam was built at the source of the Elke.

Two in particular — Allez regrets, and De tous biens plaine — were so famous in late 15th century Europe that they appeared in 25 separate sources, many dating from before the invention of printing, and they were used as source material for many later compositions by other composers.

In the 15th and 16th Century, the vineyards had been a source of subsistence, then export, because the soils and rocky terrain had made it almost impossible to develop a viable cereal culture.

Since the 15th century, European explorers had sailed into the broad Congo estuary, planning to fight their way up the falls and rapids that begin only 100 miles ( 160 km ) inland, and then travel up the river to its unknown source.

This legal position goes back to at least 920 when the Anglo-Saxon Chief Ranger, Ælla, died although the veracity of this relies upon a 15th century poetic source.

On the water organ, since the 15th century, the water is also used as a source of power to drive a mechanism similar to that of the Barrel organ, which has a pinned barrel that contains a specific song to be played.

The Old Hall Manuscript ( British Library, Additional MS 57950 ) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for late Medieval English music.

The single most important source for the Fenian Cycle is the Acallam na Senórach ( Colloquy of the Old Men ), which is found in two 15th century manuscripts, the Book of Lismore and Laud 610, as well as a 17th century manuscript from Killiney, County Dublin.