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In the early summer of 1137, the Byzantine Emperor John II came to Cilicia with a full force on his way to take Antioch ; his army successively took Seleucia, Korikos, Tarsus, Mamistra, Adana, Tel Hamdoun ( now Toprakkale in Turkey ) and Anazarbus.
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And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.
Nor in South Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields.
By early summer, he wrote from Laramie that he was suffering from the wound inflicted in the ambush and was in a bad way financially, so Pels sent him a draft for $100, warning that it was still not wise for him to return.
In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.
Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.
In the early summer of 268, the Emperor Gallienus halted their advance into Italy, but then had to deal with the Goths.
It was commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s.
Litters are born in the early summer and the parents raise the young in a large den.
Temperatures remain relatively high throughout the year, with the summer months of April to early July having an average daily temperature of about 30 ° C ( 86 ° F ).
A south arcade was added to the nave in the early 16th century ( open in summer ).
Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies: " We now have the whole summer before us ," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, " and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it.
" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.
These birds are generally solitary or found in pairs early in the year, but family groups are common in the late summer and winter roosts may have two dozen or more birds in a single covey.
After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.
An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.
They can be grown from seed and mature in summer, or early the following spring.
In some of the eastern parts of the watershed, especially shrub-steppe regions with Continental climate patterns, precipitation maximums occur in early summer.
In the summer of 2011, the band played at several festivals in Russia, and toured in Australia and Brazil in early 2012.
Freezes begin early ( late September ) and cease late ( late May ) in the season, and even summer nights are crisp.
Eastern chipmunks mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters of four or five young twice each year.
Eritrea's President Isaias visited Djibouti in early 2001 and President Ismail Omar Guelleh made a reciprocal visit to Asmara in the early summer of 2001.
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The school of medicine was founded perhaps by a graduate of the Muslim Spain medical schools ; it is certain that, as early as 1137, there were excellent physicians at Montpellier.
Some time in the late 11th or early 12th century Theobald became a monk at the Abbey of Bec, rising to the position of abbot in 1137.
A desultory war broke out again, till, early in 1137, Joscelin II patched up a truce between the combatants.
In the early summer of 1137, Emperor John II Comnenus came to Cilicia with a full force on his way to take Antioch ; his army successively retook Seleucia, Korikos, Tarsus, Mamistra, Adana, Tel Hamdoun ( now Toprakkale in Turkey ) and Anazarbus.
The famous school of medicine was founded perhaps by people trained in the Spanish medical schools ; it is certain that, as early as 1137, there were excellent physicians at Montpellier.
Olonets is the oldest documented settlement in Karelia, mentioned by Novgorodian sources as early as 1137.
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Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.
According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.
Throughout the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, Christianity was resolving fundamental questions of identity, and the dispute between the orthodox and the monophysites became the cause of serious disorder, expressed through allegiance to the horse-racing parties of the Blues and the Greens.
In a Western context, eunuch singers are known to have existed from the early Byzantine Empire.
The portion of the Greek Arithmetica that survived, however, was, like all ancient Greek texts transmitted to the early modern world, copied by, and thus known to, medieval Byzantine scholars.
* Modern Greek: Stemming from Medieval Greek, Modern Greek usages can be traced in the Byzantine period, as early as the 11th century.
Some dishes may be pre-Ottoman, only taking Turkish names later ; Ash and Dalby, for example, speculate that grape-leaf dolmathes were made by the early Byzantine period.
Records of its use in later naval battles against the Saracens are more sporadic, but it did secure a number of victories, especially in the phase of Byzantine expansion in the late 9th and early 10th centuries.
As a classically trained orator and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church, establishing the paradigm of Byzantine theologians and church officials.
The last great Byzantine Physician was John Actuarius, who lived in the early 14th century in Constantinople.
The lack of manpower also led to a significant increase in the number of " barbarians " in the Byzantine armies after the early 540s.
" As with all of the other ( earlier ) text-types, the Byzantine can also occasionally preserve early readings.
An early example of the use of the word " nation " ( in conjunction with language and territory ) was provided in 968 by Liutprand ( the bishop of Cremona ) who, while confronting the Byzantine emperor, Nicephorus II, on behalf of his patron Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, declared:
Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.
It includes biblical manuscripts, early church fragments, and classical documents from the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.
The early medieval slave trade was mainly confined to the South and East: the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world were the destinations, pagan Central and Eastern Europe, along with the Caucasus and Tartary, were important sources.
Comparison of Jerome's Gospel texts with those in Old Latin witnesses, suggests that his revision was substantially concerned with redacting the expanded phraseology characteristic of the Western text-type, in accordance with Alexandrian, or possibly early Byzantine, witnesses.
As early as 839, when Swedish emissaries are first known to have visited Byzantium, Scandinavians served as mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Empire.
It does occur in Greek as an equivalent of Laconia and Messenia during the Roman and early Byzantine periods, mostly in ethnographers and lexica glossing place names.
Map of Antioch in Roman and early Byzantine times
The Islamic arabesque is a development of the Late Antique and Byzantine types of scrolling vegetal decoration that were inherited by Islam, and used with relatively little change in early Islamic art, for example in the famous 8th century mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus.
He played a pivotal role in many early Byzantine church controversies that led to various ecumenical acts and schisms.
Although there are some references to flanged maces ( bardoukion ) as early as the Byzantine empire c. 900 it is commonly accepted that the flanged mace did not become popular in Europe until the 12th century, when it was simultaneously developed in Russia and the Middle East.
Many of its architectural treasures still remain, adding value to the city as a tourist destination, while several early Christian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988.
According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.
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