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They failed to reach the Anatolian coasts of the Black Sea however, as another Indo-European people, the Kaskians, had established a kingdom there in the 17th Century BC, displacing earlier Palaic speaking Indo-Europeans.
The castle has since disappeared and the settlement now known as Azincourt adopted the name in the 17th Century.
The Bagpiper, by Hendrick ter Brugghen ( 17th Century, Netherlands ).
This short story was written between 1601 and 1602, implying that ventiuna was played in Castilla since the beginning of the 17th Century or earlier.
Thousand Petalled Crown Chakra, Two Petalled Brow Chakra, Sixteen Petalled Throat Chakra ( Nepal, 17th Century )
This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.
* In 2000, he was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century Poll.
Examples include the 17th Century traveller Evliya Celebi in his Seyahatname-Book of Travels to the Ottoman census of Hilmi Pasha in 1904 and later.
In the 17th Century, however, Bermuda's defence was left entirely in the hands of the Militia.
During the 17th Century there was the Acadian Civil War ( 1640-45 ).
By the 17th Century, the Medieval teleological view came under intense criticism from some quarters.
The BBC states that squatting was " a big issue in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 and again for the Diggers in the 17th Century were peasants who cultivated waste and common land, claiming it as their rightful due " and that squatting was a necessity after the Second World War when so many were homeless.
Despite this, Bermuda's 17th Century agricultural economy did not become dependent on slavery as, unlike in the plantation economies that developed in English colonies in the southeast region of North America and in the West Indies, the system of indentured servitude, which lasted in Bermuda until 1684, ensured a large supply of cheap labour.
* Formation of the State of Bhutan in the 17th Century and its Tibetan Antecedents
By the second half of the 17th Century, the government was run by a small group of patricians.
* 17th Century Dutch Surnames
* Arkwright Hall is a large Victorian mansion with a 17th Century atmosphere.
The idea of an island as a part of China was unfathomable to the Han prior to the Qing frontier expansion effort of the 17th Century.
In the South of France in the 17th Century it was used in tracking criminals and heretics.
The Crimean Tatars were colonized there by the Ottoman Empire beginning in the 17th Century.
The peace times that followed the turmoil of the late 17th Century allowed the city to prosper and Limerick grew rich through trade in the late 18th century.
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In 17th Century Grimoire the Goetia there appears a demon called Baal
He was the author of Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy ( 1849 ), a defence of the clergy of the 17th Century, which received the approval of Gladstone.

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A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.
The standardisation of English in the 15th through 17th centuries included such a growth in the use of abbreviations.
When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.
Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.
Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).
The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them.
At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.
The 17th century saw the creation of the French colonial empire and the Dutch Empire, as well as the English colonial empire, which later became the British Empire.
In the 17th century, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came to North America as indentured servants.
The growing English colonies along the American seaboard to the south and various European wars between England and France during the 17th and 18th centuries brought Acadia to the centre of world-scale geopolitical forces.
Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
In the field of parapsychology, claircognizance from late 17th century French clair ( clear ) and cognizance (< Middle English | ME cognisaunce < Old French | OFr conoissance, knowledge ) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of intrinsic knowledge.
Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.
Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.
It was the same as the natural theology that was so prevalent in all English theology in the 17th and 18th centuries.
In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.
André Lorin visited the English court in the late 17th century and after returning to France he presented a manuscript of dances in the English manner to Louis XIV.

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