The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

The change spread more slowly in the West, where the office of abbot was commonly filled by laymen till the end of the 7th century.

It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.

Category: Populated places established in the 7th century BC

Alemannic belt mountings, from a 7th century grave in the Alemannic grave field | grave field at Weingarten ( Württemberg ) | Weingarten.

The gold bracteate of Pliezhausen ( 6th or 7th century ) shows typical iconography of the pagan period.

The 7th century: de: Schwertscheide von Gutenstein | Gutenstein scabbard, found near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, is a late testimony of pagan ritual in Alemannia, showing a warrior in ritual wolf costume, holding a ring-spatha.

The intervening 7th century was a period of genuine syncretism during which Christian symbolism and doctrine gradually grew in influence.

Syncretism of traditional Germanic animal-style with Christian symbolism is also present in artwork, but Christian symbolism becomes more and more prevalent during the 7th century.

The Nordendorf fibula ( early 7th century ) clearly records pagan theonyms, logaþorewodanwigiþonar read as " Wodan and Donar are magicians / sorcerers ", but this may be interpreted as either a pagan invocation of the powers of these deities, or a Christian protective charm against them.

In the early 7th century Pactus Alamannorum hardly ever mentions the special privileges of the church, while Lantfrid's Lex Alamannorum of 720 has an entire chapter reserved for ecclesial matters alone.

* Ildephonsus of Toledo, Saint and archbishop of Toledo in the 7th century

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

The town may be mentioned, however, in four 7th century documents edited by Claude Hermann Walter Johns.

Sinai ( 7th century )

After the Arab Islamic conquest in the 7th century AD Assyria was dissolved as an entity.

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

By the 7th century BC, much of the Assyrian population used Akkadian influenced Eastern Aramaic and not Akkadian itself.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

59 ), i. e. not later than the earlier half of the 7th century BC.

* Paul of Aegina ( 7th century ), medical scholar and physician

Special cases of the Chinese remainder theorem were also known to Brahmagupta ( 7th century ), and appear in Fibonacci's Liber Abaci ( 1202 ).

The ruler of Japan was known as either 大和大王 / 大君 ( Yamato-ōkimi, Grand King of Yamato ), 倭王 / 倭国王 ( Wa-ō / Wakoku-ō, King of Wa, used externally ), or 治天下大王 ( ame-no-shita shiroshimesu ōkimi or sumera no mikoto, Grand King who rules all under heaven, used internally ) in Japanese and Chinese sources prior to the 7th century.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

In the 7th century, a new port called Shilifoshi is mentioned, and this is believed to be a Chinese rendering of Srivijaya.

The Chinese monk Yijing who visited India in the 7th century, distinguishes Mahāyāna from Hīnayāna as follows:

The ancestor of the koto was the Chinese zheng and was first introduced to Japan from China in the 7th and 8th century.

Chinese of 2nd BC and Muslim sources of the 7th – 12th centuries AD describe the Kyrgyz as red-haired with fair complexion and green ( blue ) eyes.

* Last ( 7th ) year of Yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.

* Change of era name from Yuanchu ( 7th year ) to Yongning of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.

* Change of era name from Yongjian ( 7th year ) to Yangjia of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

In the 7th century CE, Xuanzang ( Hiuen Tsang ), the Chinese monk, recorded spotting many Hindu temples in Ayodhya.

* Last ( 7th ) year of Xiping era and start of Guanghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

The Chinese Book of Zhou ( 7th century ) presents an etymology of the name Turk as derived from " helmet ", explaining that taken this name refers to the shape of the Altai Mountains.

The historical Gojoseon kingdom was first mentioned in Chinese records in the early 7th century BC, and by about the 4th century BC it had developed to the point where its existence was well known in China.

In addition, local dialects employ derivations of the Malay word then in use for ' silver ', in contrast to the term used in wider Melanesian society, which has etymological roots in Chinese, a consequence of the regional trade with China that was developed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians, as early as 650 BCE and Arab mathematicians, possibly as early as the 7th century, when the Arabs conquered northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent and learned Indian mathematics and astronomy, including other aspects of combinatorial mathematics.

In Central Asia, Islam expanded from the 7th century onward, bringing a stop to Chinese westward expansion at the Battle of Talas in 751.

The name used for the region during the middle ages and up until the 20th century was Afghanistan, which has been mentioned by the 6th century Indian astronomer & mathematician Varahamihira, 7th century Chinese pilgrim Hiven Tsiang, 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Batutta, Mughal Emperor Babur, 16th century historian Firishta and many others.

Just as in the 7th century Chinese History of Northern Dynasties and the Book of Zhou, an inscription in the Iranian language, Sogdian, reports the Turks to be a subgroup of the Huns.

As Japan and the Korean peninsula became politically centralized in the 7th century AD, those societies adopted Chinese grid-planning principles in numerous locations.

The Chinese dancing fan was developed in the 7th century.

The kingdom of Champa ( Campadesa or nagara Campa in Cham and Cambodian inscriptions, written in Devanagari as च ं प ा; Chăm Pa in Vietnamese, 占城 Chiêm Thành in Hán Việt and Zhàn chéng in Chinese records ) was an Indianized kingdom that controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832.

Hence, while many observers of the Chinese civil war thought that the fall of Hainan Island to the Communists would be followed shortly by the fall of Taiwan Island, the lack of any communist guerrilla force on Taiwan Island and its sheer distance from the mainland made this impossible, as did the arrival of the US 7th fleet in the Taiwan Strait after the outbreak of the Korean War in June.

Chinese papermaking was introduced to Japan around the 7th century by Damjing and several monks of Goguryeo, later washi was developed from it.