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The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.
Alexandria Troas (" Alexandria of the Troad ", modern ) is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ( modern Bozcaada ).
Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").
The word " census " originated in ancient Rome from the Latin word (" to estimate ").
The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.
* Funeral oration ( ancient Greece ) (" epitaphios logos ")
The first chapter of the Nihongi (" Chronicles of Japan ") describes the ancient Japanese belief that the world was flat and that dry land floated " like oil " on water:
The fasces lictoriae (" bundles of the lictors ") symbolised power and authority ( imperium ) in ancient Rome.
It is one of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, preceded by the Paleozoic (" ancient life ") and succeeded by the Cenozoic (" new life ").
Notaries public ( also called " notaries ", " notarial officers ", or " public notaries ") hold an office which can trace its origins back to the ancient Roman Republic, before Cicero 106-43 B. C., when they were called scribae (" scribes "), tabellius (" writer "), or notarius (" notary ").
In the ancient priesthood before the Tang, the priest was called Jijiu (" libationer " p. 550 ), with both male and female practitioners selected by merit.
It housed and ancient celebration, the Svelata (" Revelation "), in which an image of the Madonna was unveiled at dawn of 29 November.
Sumatra was known in ancient times by the Sanskrit names of Swarnadwīpa (" Island of Gold ") and Swarnabhūmi (" Land of Gold "), because of the gold deposits of the island's highland.
Popularly called flavus (" the blond "), in reference to the yellowish colour of its water, the Tiber has heavily advanced at the mouth by about 3 km since Roman times, leaving the ancient port of Ostia Antica 6 km inland.
In ancient times the name of the constellation was Helike, (" turning "), because it turns around the Pole.
Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosophy in 1847, having defended a dissertation titled De modo matrimonia jungendi apud fennos quondam vigente (" About the custom of marriage among the ancient Finns ").
The cliffs also gave England its ancient name of Albion (" white ").
Etymologically, the word " ornithology " derives from the ancient Greek ὄρνις ornis (" bird ") and λόγος logos (" rationale " or " explanation ").

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An ancient use of Walnut ink was to stain the hands of criminals in gypsy communities.

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More recent projects have included Derby Cathedral ’ s Peregrines Project, Great Trees of Derbyshire and Saving the Great Trees of Derbyshire, projects which have raised awareness of the importance of ancient trees, and Water for Wildlife which has helped to restore wetland habitats.
During the Ptolemaid period of Egypt its ancient Egyptian name was sḫ. t-ỉm3w, " Field of Trees ".
* Years of the Trees, an ancient era in J. R. R.
* The History of Japan, giving an Account of the ancient and present State and Government of that Empire ; of Its Temples, Palaces, Castles and other Buildings ; of its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Bi * rds and Fishes ; of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular ; of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold that brought light to the Land of the Valar in ancient times.
The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees () is an ancient Buddhist temple originally built in 537 in the Liang Dynasty in Guangzhou, southern China.
Trees have been believed to have magical properties or living spirits in nearly all cultures due to the ancient magic and mystery surrounding their life-span, strength and medicinal properties.
The ancient boundaries of Haughton run along the modern day Ashton Road from the Audenshaw boundary then along Howard Lane, adjacent to the M67 motorway, along the back of Osborne Road, along the boundary of Bentley Road and Stockport Road Playing fields, along Chapelfield Road, the rear of Mount Pleasant Road, along Stockport Road to Three Lanes End, along Two Trees Lane to the Cock Inn and then following a ( now culverted ) stream to the River Tame, which then forms the eastern boundaries with Bredbury and Woodley and Hyde.

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Aphasia ( or, from ancient Greek ἀφασία ( ἄφατος, ἀ-+ φημί ), " speechlessness ") is an impairment of language ability.
Androphagi ( Ancient Greek: " Ἀνδροφάγοι " for " man-eaters ") was an ancient nation of cannibals north of Scythia ( according to Herodotus ), probably in the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don.
In classical thought, the four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire frequently occur ; sometimes including a fifth element or quintessence ( after " quint " meaning " fifth ") called Aether in ancient Greece and India.
Carved into the temple were three phrases: ( gnōthi seautón = " know thyself ") and ( mēdén ágan = " nothing in excess "), and ( eggýa pára d ' atē = " make a pledge and mischief is nigh "), In ancient times, the origin of these phrases was attributed to one or more of the Seven Sages of Greece,
In mineralogy, diamond ( from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas " unbreakable ") is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.
The term dialect ( from the ancient Greek word Διάλεκτος diálektos, " discourse ", from διά diá, " through " + λέγω legō, " I speak ") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists.
The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.
In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.
He further suggests the inward bend of the soundboard ( the " belly scoop ") is a deliberate adaptation by ancient builders to afford the lutenist's right hand more space between the strings and soundboard.
Manasseh ( ; " Menashé ") is an ancient Hebrew male name, meaning " causing to forget ".
Masada ( Hebrew מצדה, pronounced, from מצודה, metzuda, " fortress ") is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea.
The Paleozoic Era ( from the Greek palaios ( παλαιός ), " old " and zoe ( ζωή ), " life ", meaning " ancient life ") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, spanning from roughly ( ICS, 2004 ).
* Boustrophedon ( Greek: " ox-turning ") – an ancient way of writing, each line being read in the opposite direction like reversible ploughing.
In Greek mythology, Pandora ( ancient Greek,, derived from " all " and " gift ", thus " all-gifted " or " all-giving ") was allegedly the first woman, who was made out of clay.
Palaeography or Palæography, also spelt paleography ( from Greek palaiós, " old " and graphein, " to write ") is the study of ancient writing.
") Dr. Reckart emphasizes that Oneness do not believe as ancient patripassians were accused, that the Father died on the cross as the Son.
A Roman legion ( from Latin legio " military levy, conscription ," from legere — " to choose ") normally indicates the basic ancient Roman army unit recruited specifically from Roman citizens.

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