Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

Its value is the insight it provides to the ancient culture of Egypt.

Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting until today.

Its origin is lost in the mists of time, but from the evidence of the ancient oral and written literature, it has been present in one form or another since at least the 6th century or before.

Its ancient Latin name was Sinus Codanus.

Its alternate ancient names include,, and.

Its ancient name was identified in the mid-1990s as Masuul.

Its source is just 240 km ( 150 mi ) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but the river runs directly away from the sea into the Sahara Desert, then takes a sharp right turn near the ancient city of Timbuktu ( Tombouctou ) and heads southeast to the Gulf of Guinea.

Its foundations were laid on the site of an ancient outdoor sanctuary dedicated to Zeus.

Its ancient wards have very unequal numbers of voters.

Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan.

Its name is thought to come from the ancient Arabian town of Suluk, Libya, although in the modern era it has also been called the Gazelle Hound or Persian Greyhound.

Its history goes back to the Roman harbour ( named " Portus Luguidonis "-presumably located in the little bay in front of the ancient church of St. John ), from where the Romans entered inner Sardinia.

Its political origin is traced to the ancient Gallic state of the Andes, on the lines of which was organized, after the conquest by Julius Caesar, the Roman civitas of the Andecavi.

Its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of simple social organization in which decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men.

Its harbour, mentioned as early as 181 BC, was probably the principal one of the district in ancient times, as it is at present, and was the centre of a fishery.

Its origins are ancient.

Its libraries contain a number of ancient documents, among them the condaghes, Sardinia's first legal codes and the first documents written in the Sardinian language ( 11th century ) and the famous Carta de Logu ( the constitution issued by Marianus IV of Arborea and updated later by his daughter the Giudichessa Eleanor of Arborea ) in the 14th century.

Its unique structure plays on the city's namesake in Egypt, known for its ancient pyramids.

Its use in ancient times was widespread, and Nyrop gives examples: " people threw themselves down on the ground before their rulers, kissed their footprints, literally ' licked the dust ,' as it is termed.

Its first exhibits were copies of ancient statuary, thought indispensable for the education of art students.

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Its similarity to the ancient lectionary is particularly obvious during Trinity season ( Sundays after the Sunday after Pentecost ), reflecting that understanding of sanctification.

Its ancient mythical setting included sea gods, nymphs, and fauns, and the actors appeared naked.

Its ancient name, Serdika or Serdica, derives from the local Celtic tribe of the serdi who inhabited the region since the 1st century BC.

Its fortifications have been replaced by boulevards beyond which extend numerous suburbs, while on the left bank of the Tarn is the suburb of Villebourbon, which is connected to the town by a remarkable bridge of the early 14th century.

Its extent varied in places as a result of subsequent improvements to the fortifications and is depicted differently on the various maps.

Its fortifications were dismantled in 1874.

Its obsolete and ruined fortifications were destroyed upon order of Mayor Józef Królikowski.

Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Vauban.

Its fortifications were increased in response to the border warfare which raged between England and Scotland in the period from about 1300 to 1600.

Its fortifications are now well restored.

Its solid fortifications are a testament to the innumerable attacks by Spanish, French and English pirates and privateers ; the many forts that dot the barrier between land and sea are symbols of the resistance and battles that secured Portuguese independence and national interests.

Its fortifications had been laid out by Major Joseph Gilbert Totten, Izard's senior Engineer officer, and consisted of three redoubts and two blockhouses, linked by other fieldworks.

Its massive fortifications, which were considered state of the art until the modern age, are also largely intact.

Its fortifications were destroyed by the French in 1807.

Its wealth attracted the raids of pirates, against which fortifications such as Fort San Juan de Ulúa were built.

Its integrity had been fatally compromised in May 1989 when a reformist Communist government in Hungary, supported by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, began to dismantle its border fortifications.

Its oldest origins are indeterminate and the oldest fortifications on this site may date back to the Iron Age, later being used as a Norman Motte-and-bailey castle which was reportedly destroyed and replaced in a short period during the 13th century.

Its roles include mobility assurance, road breaching, defense and fortifications, counter-mobility of enemy forces, construction and destruction under fire, sabotage, explosives, bomb disposal, counter-NBC and special engineering missions.

Its brief was to enquire into the state and sufficiency of fortifications existing and planned for defending the UK, with a specific focus on naval dockyards.

Its builders intended that Murney ( then Murray ) Tower complement the fortifications of Fort Henry, Ontario.

Its main fortifications were pointed seaward, while the land defences encircled the city at a distance of 15 – 20 km and the inner belt at a range of 5 km.

The Defenses of Washington D. C. was a short lived command, from September 2, 1862 through February 2, 1863. used for the consolidation of all the defenses of the area including and surrounding Washington, D. C. Its main focus was on the maintaining of the fortifications in extending in a ring around Washington, D. C.

Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.

Its construction was started in 1872 by the British, as part of a program of improvements to Malta's fortifications recommended in Colonel Jervois's Report of 1866 titled " Memorandum with reference to the improvements to the defences of Malta and Gibraltar, rendered necessary by the introduction of Iron Plated Ships and powerful rifled guns ".

Its fortifications included a moat three metres deep, drawbridges, bastions, buttresses, ramparts, battlements, loopholes, and a catapult.