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    September 2004, a Hellenic Army Aviation CH-47SD crashed into the sea off Mount Athos. All 17 people on board were killed, including four senior figures in the...
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    popularity after they were adopted in the Great Lavra on Mount Athos in the 960s. Monasteries had a deep effect on the local society, in various cases acting...
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    the largest and best-preserved old towns of Europe. Vilnius was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian...
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  • degrees. A geographically named feature is uniquely identified by a Unique Feature Identifier (UFI), which is a number. A similar UFI denotes a similar...
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    660 pp., ISBN 0-06-080332-0. —— The Gulag Archipelago: Two. Harper & Row. 712 pp., ISBN 0-06-080345-2. Tobien, Karl. 2006. Dancing Under the Red Star:...
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    Salzburg (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    museum dedicated to Mozart Nonnberg Abbey (Stift Nonnberg), a Benedictine monastery founded c.712/715 Residenz, the former residence of the Prince-Archbishops...
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    Mérida (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾiða]) is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Province of Badajoz, and capital of the autonomous community...
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    other sources, including Pseudo-Sphrantzes, claim that he became a monk in Mount Athos, where he died. At this time, Venice had no standing fleet. Every...
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  • This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee...
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    Liszt (1811–1886) was especially prolific, composing more than 700 works. A virtuoso pianist himself, much of his output is dedicated to solo works for...
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    to the Seljuks (Bardback). Leuvin: Peeters. pp. 253–276. ISBN 978-9-04292-712-4. Simeonov, Grigori (2016). "Die Brachialion-Anlegestelle". In Daim, Falko...
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    Orthodox clergy had the title of Protos at Mount Athos. On 16 April 1346 (Easter), Stefan Dušan convoked a grand assembly at Skopje, attended by the Serbian...
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    Toledo, Spain (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    developed under the Visigothic nobles, Tariq bin Ziyad captured Toledo in 711 or 712, on behalf of the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, as part of the Islamic conquest...
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    Seville (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    Seville (Spalis) was seemingly taken by Musa ibn Nusayr in the late summer of 712, while he was on his way to Mérida. Yet it had to be retaken in July 713...
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    manuscripts was presented by Holmes and Parsons. Their edition ends with a full list of manuscripts known to them set out in the Annexes. It enumerates...
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    Slavyanobolgarskaya, written in 1762 by Paisius, a Bulgarian monk of the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos, lead to the National awakening of Bulgaria and...
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    22 km (14 mi) from Sukhumi lies New Athos with the ruins of the medieval city of Anacopia. The Neo-Byzantine New Athos Monastery was constructed here in...
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    Olophyxia: A remote town in the troubled north-east of Greece, near Mount Athos, it is the very model of a well-regulated town (line 1041). Laurium: A mining...
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    Retrieved 4 August 2011. Cook, Bernard A. (2001). Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 712. ISBN 978-0815340584. Archived from the...
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    Kiev Caves (14th century) Venerable Macarius (Makris) of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos and Pantocratoros monastery in Constantinople, Abbot (1430) Hieromartyr...
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    Treadgold (1997), p. 495 Treadgold (1997), p. 710 Treadgold (1997), pp. 712, 715 Tsougarakis 1988, p. 156. Tsougarakis 1988, p. 157. Tsougarakis 1988...
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  • A New Testament minuscule is a copy of a portion of the New Testament written in a small, cursive Greek script (developed from Uncial). The numbers (#)...
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  • List of George Franklin Barber works (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    The following is a chronological list of buildings designed by late-19th- and early-20th-century catalog architect, George Franklin Barber (1854–1915)...
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  • ISBN 978-0-712-66054-9 Pomeroy, Sarah (2002), Spartan Women, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-195-13067-6 Powell, Anton (2004), "Sparta: A Modern...
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    (in Italian). Vol. Tomo decimosesto (16). Venice: G. Antonelli. pp. 409–712. Faini, Enrico (2013), "I vescovi dimenticati. Memoria e oblio dei vescovi...
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    collection in the Byzantine world was found in the monasteries of Mount Athos (modern-day Greece), which accumulated over 10,000 books. Scholars travelled...
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    it was again lost in 698, marking the end of Byzantine North Africa. From 712 on, the Arab raids penetrated ever deeper into Anatolia, with the final objective...
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    State Route 609 (SR 609) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many...
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  • of the Protaton church at Karyes (Athos), dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, oldest church on Mount Athos. 337 Under Constantine the Great...
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    State Route 726 (SR 726) in the U.S. state of Virginia is a secondary route designation applied to multiple discontinuous road segments among the many...
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