[permalink] [id link]
This was hellenized as Χάνδαξ ( Handax ) or Χάνδακας and Latinized as Candia, which was taken into other European languages: in Italian as Candia ( used under the Venetian rule ), in French as Candie, in English as Candy, all of which could refer to all of Crete as well as to the city itself ; the Ottoman name was Kandiye.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
was and hellenized
During his first visit to Greece using this passport, Constantine was mocked by some of the Greek media, which hellenized the " de Grecia " designation and used it as a surname, thus naming him Κωνσταντίνος Ντεγκρέτσιας (" Constantine Degrecias ").
Culturally, the Roman Empire was significantly hellenized, but also saw the rise of syncratic " eastern " traditions, such as Mithraism, Gnosticism, and most notably Christianity.
After the fall of the Northern Kingdom Israel was renamed Samaria ( Shomron ), and during the Hellenistic and Roman periods the name Judah was hellenized to Judea.
Romanus ( Latin for " Roman "), hellenized as Romanos ( meaning " strength ") was a Roman cognomen and can refer to:
As was customary in the hierarchy of the Byzantine state, clear differentiation is made between style of the emperors and that of the Hungarian king by using a hellenized form of the common South Slavic word for " king " ( Kralj ) for Géza.
It is an area, after all, that was not significantly hellenized during the rule of Alexander, and the locals originally spoke Aramaic and Nabataean, not Greek.
Karagiozis was hellenized in Patras, Greece in the end of 19th century by Dimitrios Sardounis alias Mimaros, who is considered the founder of modern Greek shadow theater.
Born into one of the oldest families in Lucca ( de Herena, also known as " della Rena "), he was later given the hellenized name " Ammonio ".
The Latin term primicerius, hellenized as prim ( m ) ikērios (), was a title applied in the later Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire to the heads of administrative departments, and also used by the Church to denote the heads of various colleges.
was and Χάνδαξ
The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.
was and Latinized
Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.
Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.
Andronikos III Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341, after being rival emperor since 1321.
Andronikos II Palaiologos () ( 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332 ), Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, was Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328.
The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.
The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".
He refers to Freyr with the Latinized name Fricco and mentions that an image of him at Skara was destroyed by a Christian missionary.
The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.
Martin Waldseemüller ( Latinized Martinus Ilacomylus, Ilacomilus or Hylacomylus, c. 1470, Wolfenweiler, Baden – Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Lorraine 1520, March 16 ) was a German cartographer.
Mohism or Moism () was a Chinese philosophy developed by the followers of Mozi ( also referred to as Mo Tzu ( Master Mo ), Latinized as Micius ), 470 BC – c. 391 BC.
The Old Prussian name for the nation, not being Latinized, was Prūsa.
The word politics comes from the Greek word Πολιτικά ( politika ), modeled on Aristotle's " affairs of the city ", the name of his book on governing and governments, which was rendered in English mid-15 century as Latinized " Polettiques ".
The name was Latinized to Petrarca and later was Anglicized to Petrarch.
The genus name was Latinized to the current Pterodactylus by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815, which by these rules is the valid name as they do not allow for diacritics or hyphens.
René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.
The medieval Norse word was Latinized as Ollerus.
The original name of the Topelius family was the Finnish name Toppila which had been Latinized to Toppelius by the author's grandfather's grandfather and later changed to Topelius.
In 11th century official documents it was then Latinized as Ultra Traiectum.
There was news of another massive Saracen sea attack in 1015-16 from Balearics, led by Mujahid ( Latinized in Museto ), the saracen's attempt of invasion of the island was stopped by Sardinian Giudicati with the support of the Fleets of Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa.
was and Candia
Chandax was renamed Candia and became the seat of the Duke of Candia, and the Venetian administrative district of Crete became known as " regno di Candia " ( kingdom of Candia ).
The city retained the name of Candia for centuries and the same name was often used to refer to the whole island of Crete as well.
During the period of direct occupation of the island by the Great Powers ( 1898 – 1908 ), Candia was part of the British zone.
1733 – 1824 ), Greek mathematician and an Nautical science expert, whose family was from Heraklion ( Candia ), Crete.
Heraklion was formerly called Candia after the Saracen name for the place, Kandaiki, referring to the moat that was built around the then new settlement for defence.
Population was expanded by infusions of Byzantine immigrants fleeing the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and Cretan immigrants fleeing the fall of Candia in 1669.
Settled in 1743, Candia was once part of Chester and known as Charmingfare, probably because of the many bridle paths or " parades " through the pleasant scenery.
Charmingfare was incorporated in 1763 and named Candia by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, possibly after the old name under Venetian domination of the principal city of Crete, which he had visited after graduation from Harvard.
Candia ( Chandax, modern Heraklion ), a city built by the Iberian Muslims, was made capital of the island instead.
In the partition of the Byzantine empire after the capture of Constantinople by the armies of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Crete was eventually acquired by Venice, which held it for more than four centuries ( the " Kingdom of Candia ").
During the Cretan War ( 1645 – 1669 ), Venice was pushed out of Crete by the Ottoman Empire, with most of the island lost after the siege of Candia ( 1648 – 1669 ), possibly the longest siege in history.
In fact Leonardo da Pistoia ( monk ) was the pseudonym of Leonardo Alberti de Candia, a noble of the Alberti ( family ) of the counts of Prato in Pistoia.
In 1669 she involved herself in the relief of Candia in Crete, which was under siege by the Turks and whose cause Rome was promoting, although she failed to persuade her husband to take any action.
0.149 seconds.