It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

It is after the late seventeenth century.

I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

After the seventeenth century the audience ceased to be an organic community to which these ideas and their attendant habits of figurative language would be natural or immediately familiar.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

Protracted conflict through the seventeenth century with more radical Protestants on the one hand and Roman Catholics who still recognised the primacy of the Pope on the other, resulted in an association of churches that were both deliberately vague about doctrinal principles, yet bold in developing parameters of acceptable deviation.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

The Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof is an open-air museum that shows the life of sixteenth or seventeenth century farmers in the region, featuring a number of reconstructed Black Forest farms.

There were two more nominal bishops, but on the petition of the latter of these, the electoral prince John George, the secularisation of the bishopric was undertaken and finally accomplished, in spite of legal proceedings to reassert the imperial immediacy of the prince-bishopric within the Empire and so to likewise preserve the diocese, which dragged on into the seventeenth century.

The term first appeared in the Russian documents in the seventeenth century in documents from 1688, 1700 and 1714.

He found that material was scattered over an area in diameter, and in addition to military and nautical equipment recovered a large number of gold and silver coins from countries across the Mediterranean, some from the seventeenth century.

Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion ( which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct ), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body.

With British colonial expansion from the seventeenth century onwards, the Anglican Church was planted across the globe.

Until the early seventeenth century the Bandas were ruled by a group of leading citizens, the orang kaya ( literally ' rich men '), each of these was a head of district.

The descendants of some of the Bandanese who fled Dutch conquest in the seventeenth century live in the Kai Islands ( Kepulauan Kei ) to the east of the Banda group, where a version of the original Banda language is still spoken in the villages of Banda Eli and Banda Elat on Kai Besar Island.

Pioneers and perkerniers: the Banda Islands in the seventeenth century.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century.

While seventeenth century English admiralty law allowed captains great leeway in using violence against their crew, outright murder was not permitted.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894.

The origin of the goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, who in the seventeenth century, after having constructed a successful mechanical calculating machine, dreamt of building a machine that could manipulate symbols in order to determine the truth values of mathematical statements.

The Garrett ancestors had been ironworkers in East Suffolk since the early seventeenth century.

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

Other popular Dutch landscape painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth century were

Although a Dutch spectacle maker created the compound lens and inserted it in a microscope around the turn of the seventeenth century, and Galileo had applied the principle of the compound lens to the making of his microscope patented in 1609, its possibilities as a microscope had remained unexploited for half a century, until Robert Hooke improved the instrument.

In the early seventeenth century, the Dutch art historian Karel van Mander described Bosch ’ s work as comprising " wondrous and strange fantasies "; however, he concluded that the paintings are " often less pleasant than gruesome to look at.

This is particularly true of atlases published by Dutch publishers during the second half of the seventeenth century.

According to art historian Andreas Beyer, it " offered a prelude of a genre that would only truly gain acceptance in Dutch painting of the seventeenth century ".

* The Dutch took over Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Tobago, St. Croix, Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Anguilla and a short time Puerto Rico, together called the Dutch West Indies, in the seventeenth century.

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of English descent and in upstate New York also in some cases of Dutch descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars confirmed the Dutch Republic's position as the leading maritime state of the seventeenth century.

" International currencies in the past have included the Chinese Liang and Greek drachma, coined in the fifth century B. C., the silver punch-marked coins of fourth century India, the Roman denari, the Byzantine solidus and Islamic dinar of the middle-ages, the Venetian ducato of the Renaissance, the seventeenth century Dutch guilder and of course, more recently, sterling and the dollar .”

Far from creating pastiches of Dutch seventeenth century, Crome and Cotman, along with Joseph Stannard, established a school of landscape painting which deserves far greater fame ; the broad washes of Cotman's water-colours anticipate French impressionism.

Pseudodoxia was subsequently translated and published in French, Dutch, Latin and German throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The town was first mentioned in 1183 as Viniarcum and was the scene of much fighting during the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among the French, English, Dutch and Spanish forces.

The archeologist Herbert C. Kraft says that some of the Ramapough retreated to the mountains by the mid to late seventeenth century, and theorizes they were joined by remnants of the Esopus and possibly Wappinger bands after wars with the Dutch.

Archeologist and Historian Edward J. Lenik disagrees with Cohen's findings by stating " While the Ramapough's origins are controversial, most historians and anthropolgists agree that they ( Ramapough ) are the descendants from local Munsee speaking Lenape ( Delaware ) Indians who fled to the mountains in the late seventeenth century to escape Dutch and English settlers.

* Albert Janse Ryckman, Mayor of Albany, New York ( 1702 – 1703 ), Captain of the Albany Militia, prominent Albany brewmaster of the late seventeenth century ; deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church

The quasi-monopoly on foreign trade in the region would be maintained by the Portuguese until the early seventeenth century, when the Spanish and Dutch arrived.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( 8 January 1587 – 21 September 1629 ) was an officer of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

The colonial name for the entire Hudson given to it by the Dutch in the early seventeenth century, the term fell out of general use for most of the river's 300 + mile course during the early 1900s.

This type of door was common in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century and appear in Dutch paintings of the period.

Revisionist historians have placed the background of the Pequot War within the context of European history, in which religious wars gave rise to increased violence, and Dutch and English colonization in North America, as well as the geopolitical ambitions and struggles of contending Native peoples during the first half of the seventeenth century.

In the heyday of the Dutch Republic, the Golden Age of the seventeenth century, many of the Menists came into considerable wealth.

Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch is descended primarily from the Palatine German dialects spoken by Germans who immigrated to North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and who chose to maintain their native language.