Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

Soon thereafter he began to write the history of Bremen / Hamburg and of the northern lands in his Gesta.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

Austria proper ( as opposed to the complex of Habsburg lands as a whole ) had been an Archduchy since the 15th century, and most of the other territories of the Empire had their own institutions and territorial history, although there were some attempts at centralization, especially during the reign of Marie Therese and her son Joseph II and then finalized in the early 19th century.

The city is close to the former late medieval / modern boundary between West Slavic and Germanic lands and it has a complex political history with periods of Polish rule, periods of German rule, and extensive self-rule, with two spells as a free city.

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea — the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples — encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

The history of Sierra Leone began when the lands became inhabited at least 2, 500 years ago.

These novels — including The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End — have been credited as important milestones in the history of fantasy fiction, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, or the future ( as Morris did in News from Nowhere ), Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world.

In addition to its three provinces, Aragon is subdivided into 33 comarcas or counties ; all with a rich geopolitical and cultural history from its pre-Roman and Roman days ; and from the four centuries of Islamic period as Marca Superior of Al-Andalus or kingdom ( or taifa ) of Saraqustah, and as lands that once belonged to the Frankish Marca Hispanica ; and counties that later formed the Kingdom of Aragon and eventually the empire or Crown of Aragon.

The history of Bulgaria spans from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin.

Thus a new period in Belarusian history started, with all its lands annexed by the Russian Empire, in a continuing endeavor of Russian tsars of " gathering the Rus lands " started after the liberation from the Tatar yoke by Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

These events had a wide impact on the cultural history of Czech lands, as they were consequently incorporated into the Roman Catholic and not into the Slavic-Orthodox world.

This was the first time in history that a federal government had set aside scenic lands simply to protect them and to allow for their enjoyment by all people.

There were also over 50 concession-type amusements found on " The Pike "; they provided educational and scientific displays, exhibits and imaginary ' travel ' to distant lands, history and local boosterism ( including Louis Wollbrinck's " Old St. Louis ") and pure entertainment.

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

Historical records of the Cossacks before the 16th century are scant as the history of the Ukrainian lands in that period for various reasons.

Java's volcanic topography and rich agricultural lands are the fundamental factor in its history

Furthermore, Tiberius ( again according to the history of Plutarch ) reputedly offered to pay Octavius for his own lost lands personally, and that the two were friends until the weight of the wealthy / Senate brought him as the opposition to Tiberius ' law.

In similar settings at Poul Anderson's The High Crusade, an alien ship lands at a Medieval English village, but the overconfident would-be conquerors find out the hard way that they are not immune to swords and arrows ; the humans take over the ship and proceed to carve out an empire among the stars, but lose contact with Earth which goes on with its familiar history.

The period of his leadership is known in Mexican history as La Reforma del Norte ( The Reform of the North ), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, the subordination of army to civilian control, liquidation of peasant communal land holdings, the separation of church and state in public affairs, and also the almost-complete disenfranchisement of bishops, priests, nuns and lay brothers.

He was one of the most powerful residents in the town's history, dividing up the lands into large ranches for friends and family.

One of the worst mining disasters in American history occurred at the Harwick Mine disaster in Cheswick on January 25, 1904, killing almost 200 men.

The Liberal-Radical heritage which informs all of Trevelyan's interpretations of history here seems clearly to have distorted the issues and oversimplified the period.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

The early history of the synagogue is obscure, but it seems to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews ( and Jewish Proselytes ) did not have access to a Temple ( the First Temple having been destroyed c. 586 BC ) for ritual sacrifice.

Speaking for myself, the definition that seems least inadequate because most embracing is this: Myth narrates a sacred history ; it relates an event that took place in primordial Time, the fabled time of the " beginnings.

It may be that Æthelberht was king of east Kent and Eadbald became king of west Kent ; the east Kent king seems generally to have been the dominant ruler later in Kentish history.

By revealing ( in modern terms ) that numbers could be irrational, this discovery seems to have provoked the first foundational crisis in mathematical history ; its proof or its divulgation are sometimes credited to Hippasus, who was expelled or split from the Pythagorean sect.

The scepter with the longest history seems to be the heqa-scepter, sometimes described as the shepherd ’ s crook.

In the first case, it seems reasonable to assume ( based on the history of science ) that current physical theories will very probably be refined by future scientific discoveries.

Bede makes the claim that Oswald " brought under his dominion all the nations and provinces of Britain ", which, as Bede notes, was divided by language between the English, Britons, Scots, and Picts ; however, he seems to undermine his own claim when he mentions at another point in his history that it was Oswald's brother Oswiu who made tributary the Picts and Scots.

One of the most precarious times in the breed ’ s history seems to have been towards the end of the nineteenth century, when many of the large Scottish estates were split into small estates for sporting purposes, and few then kept Deerhounds.

In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U. S. 579, 644 ( 1952 ), Justice Robert H. Jackson's concurring opinion cites the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers ' intent to constrain executive power even during wartime: " hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history.

If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history ( his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year ).

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

However, this seems unlikely as the dates of his lifetime do not fit easily within the time frame of the Quaker community in the British Virgin Islands, and as Quaker history is generally very well documented, it is unlikely that an expedition by a member of such a famous family would go unnoticed.

Even in ancient times nothing seems to have been known of his life except what can be gathered from notices in his Historia Ecclesiastica (" Church History "), which departed from its ostensible model, Eusebius of Caesarea, in emphasizing the place of the emperor in church affairs and in giving secular as well as church history.

In early 2007, abnormally high die-offs ( 30-70 % of hives ) of European honey bee colonies occurred in North America ; such a decline seems unprecedented in recent history.

The history of the analysis of The Taming of the Shrew is saturated with controversy almost from its inception, something Stevie Davies summarises when she writes that response to The Shrew " is dominated by feelings of unease and embarrassment, accompanied by the desire to prove that Shakespeare cannot have meant what he seems to be saying ; and that therefore he cannot really be saying it.

This development seems to have been supported by the Nazi regime: it may have got him conveniently out of the way, yet at the same time he propagated a German view of musical history and education.

The most ambitious project of this kind seems to be Harry Turtledove's alternative history Worldwar & Colonization series, where lizard-like aliens land on Earth in 1942, bent on conquest, forcing the opposing sides of the Second World War to sign hasty cease-fires and fight their own ( largely ) separate wars against the invaders.

Sydnor remarked that Irving's statement that the Einsatzgruppen were in charge in the death camps seems to indicate that he was not familiar with the history of the Holocaust, as the Einsatzgruppen were in fact mobile death squads who had nothing to do with the death camps.

The modern history of cargo cults seems to have begun before historical records in the countries of Melanesia, where an indigenous tradition of exchange of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and would return at some time laden with these objects for the members of the tribes.

Included in the group were brothers William F. and John M. Stephen, and a black family whose name and destiny seems to have been lost to history.

Anglo-Saxon settlement in Yeading therefore seems probable, but the history of Yeading in subsequent centuries is not as clear as that of Hayes.