Constantly struggling with the Guelph Perugia, it was during one of those battles, the battle at Ponte San Giovanni, that Francesco di Bernardone, ( Saint Francis of Assisi ), was taken prisoner, setting in motion the events that eventually led him to live as a beggar, renounce the world and establish the Order of Friars Minor.

Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander's lines of supply and communication ; however, Antigonus defeated the Persian forces in three separate battles.

Major battles in Asia Minor are marked.

* Minor battles in The Lord of the Rings

* Minor battles in The Lord of the Rings

Orator Minor is a competition where people debate about randomly selected subjects in one-on-one battles and only have ten minutes to prepare their speeches.

* Minor battles in The Lord of the Rings

He relates much about the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia, the early Crusades, and the battles between Byzantines and Arabs for the possession of parts of northern Syria and eastern Asia Minor.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

The armies of the eastern empire were occupied with Hunnic incursions in Asia Minor and Syria.

Alexios dealt with the first disorganized group of Crusaders, led by the preacher Peter the Hermit, by sending them on to Asia Minor, where they were massacred by the Turks in 1096.

The Spartans were of the view that, with the liberation of mainland Greece, and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, the war's purpose had already been reached.

The Getae occupied the region today called Wallachia as well as Scythia Minor and were either a Dacian-or Thracian-speaking people.

Shortly after they returned, bringing John Mark with them, they were appointed as missionaries to Asia Minor, and in this capacity visited Cyprus and some of the principal cities of Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia ( Acts 13: 14 ).

During the 1st millennium BC, they were spoken across Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Atlantic and North Sea coastlines, up the Rhine valley and down the Danube valley to the Black Sea, the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and in Galatia in Asia Minor.

His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, Augustus ' sister, and therefore the great-great grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar.

The word is a compound from two Greek terms, ἢλεκτρον, ēlektron, " amber " ( as electrostatic phenomena were first described as properties of amber by the philosopher Thales ), and μαγνήτης, magnētēs, " magnet " ( the magnetic stones found in antiquity in the vicinity of the Greek city of Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia Minor ).

If this letter were to Ephesus, one would expect it to have more of the warmth evidenced in Philippians ... We may safely assume the letter was a general letter to Gentile believers in southwestern Asia Minor and that it became identified with Ephesus as the most important city between Rome and Antioch.

Minor curiosities were some of the films of Solax directed by Herbert Blaché and his wife Alice Guy.

The five areas listed in 1: 1 as the geographical location of the first readers were Roman provinces in Asia Minor.

His parents were the general Nero Claudius Drusus ( son of Empress Livia Drusilla, third wife of Emperor Augustus ) and Antonia Minor ( the younger daughter of the triumvir Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus ).

These invaders appeared in Asia Minor in 278 – 277 BC ; others invaded Macedonia, killed the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy Ceraunus but were eventually ousted by Antigonus Gonatas, the grandson of the defeated Diadoch Antigonus the One-Eyed.

Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around the 18th century BC, which reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, encommpassing an area that included most of Asia Minor as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.

Remnants of these languages lingered into Persian times ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and were finally extinguished by the spread of Hellenism which followed Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor in the 4th century BC.

Kenneth W. Harl in the Teaching Company's Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor lecture series sarcastically claims that Schliemann's excavations were carried out with such rough methods that he did to Troy what the Greeks couldn't do in their times, destroying and leveling down the entire city walls to the ground.

Among the personal disagreements within the Isis-Urania temple, disputes were arising from Florence Farr's The Sphere, a secret society within the Isis-Urania, and the rest of the Adepts Minor.

There were also four sub-Grades of instruction for the Adeptus Minor, again relating to the four Outer Order grades.

This can be compared to Pausanias ' report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.

In Asia Minor during the periods of rule by the Seljuq and Ottoman Turks impressive structures functioning as inns () were built because it was thought that inns were socially significant.

The Parthian Empire had supported Brutus and Cassius in the civil war, sending forces which fought with them at Philippi ; following Antony and Octavian's victory, the Parthians invaded Roman territory, occupying Syria, advancing into Asia Minor and installing Antigonus as puppet king in Judaea to replace the pro-Roman Hyrcanus.

He inherited a state of war with Egypt, the " Second Syrian War ", which was fought along the coasts of Asia Minor, and the constant intrigues of petty despots and restless city-states in Asia Minor.

The Battle of the Granicus River in May 334 BC was fought in Northwestern Asia Minor ( modern-day Turkey ), near the site of Troy.

Livy recorded that the Celts of Asia Minor fought naked and their wounds were plain to see on the whiteness of their bodies.

Minor crimes such as prostitution and drug use are sometimes dealt with under re-education through labor laws.

Although Habiru ( a Sumerian ideogram glossed as " brigand " in Akkadian ), and sometimes ( an Akkadian word ) had been reported in Mesopotamia from the reign of the Sumerian king, Shulgi of Ur III, their appearance in Canaan appears to have been due to the arrival of a new state based in Asia Minor to the north of Assyria based upon Maryannu aristocracy of horse drawn charioteers, associated with the Indo-Aryan rulers of the Hurrians, known as Mitanni.

Minor discharge sometimes leaks from the Glyncorrwg colliery, although its effects do not have a noticeably detrimental effect on the river.

Historical facts are also sometimes changed: in Plutarch Antony's final defeat was many weeks after the battle of Actium, and Octavia lived with Antony for several years and bore him two children: Antonia Major, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero and maternal grandmother of the Empress Valeria Messalina, and Antonia Minor, the sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger.

Minor changes in instruction formats, particularly the way the additional index registers were addressed, sometimes caused problems.

, sometimes transliterated as Chalkedon ) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.

The populations in Italy, southeast Europe, and Asia Minor and the Caucasus are sometimes treated as separate species, Q. brutia Tenore, Q. pedunculiflora K. Koch and Q. haas Kotschy respectively.

The Fraticelli, sometimes confusingly called Fratricelli, were medieval Roman Catholic groups that could trace their origins to the Friars Minor, but which developed into a separate entity.

" Minor " may also be used in contexts not connected to the overall age of majority ; for example, the drinking age in the United States is 21, and people below this age are sometimes referred to as " minors " even if 18.

Minor amounts of hyperopia are sometimes left uncorrected.

A set of statuettes from Priene, a Greek city on the west coast of Asia Minor, are usually identified as " Baubo " figurines, representing the female body as the face conflated with the lower part of the abdomen, much like the phalluses decorated with eyes, mouth, and sometimes also legs that appear on vase paintings and also as statuettes.

The Scordisci were found during different timelines in Illyria, Thrace and Dacia sometimes splitting into more than one group like the Scordisci Major and the Scordisci Minor.

Nicknames like " Miner " ( or misspelled as " Minor ") and " Three Finger " ( or sometimes " Three-Fingered ") were headline writers ' inventions.

The complete catalogue of minor planet orbits ( MPCORB, sometimes referred to as the ' Minor Planet Catalogue ') may also be freely downloaded.

Minor differences between compilers of DOS as opposed to OS sometimes required modifications to programs.

The term " Pre-Indo-European " is sometimes extended to refer to Asia Minor and Central Asia, in which case the Hurrians and Urartians are sometimes included.

Huntingdonshire is sometimes considered one of the Minor Counties because even though it has never played within the Minor Counties Championship it has its own individual Cricket Board and played in the English domestic one-day competition, between the years 1999 and 2003.

After that, a Minor Counties representative side was normally accorded a first-class fixture against the touring team, though sometimes the match was downgraded to a two-day non-first-class match.

The UK single release, on the Major Minor label, was credited to " The Great Unknowns ", and featured " Doo-be-doo-be-do " on the B side ( also sometimes featured in The Benny Hill Show ).

Torminalis clusii, Wild Service Tree ), sometimes known as the Chequer ( s ) Tree or Checker ( s ) Tree, is a species of Sorbus native to Europe from England and Wales east to Denmark and Poland, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia from Asia Minor to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains.

Minor standards can also be found in Belgium and Switzerland, with a particular influence of Germanic languages on grammar and vocabulary, sometimes through the influence of local dialects.

Minor crimes such as prostitution and drug use are sometimes dealt with under re-education through labor laws.