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    Semiramis (/səˈmɪrəmɪs, sɪ-, sɛ-/; Syriac: ܫܲܡܝܼܪܵܡ Šammīrām, Greek: Σεμίραμις, Arabic: سميراميس Samīrāmīs, Armenian: Շամիրամ Šamiram) was the legendary...
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  • Semiramide (AKA: I Am Semiramis, AKA: Slave Queen of Babylon, AKA: Duelo de Reyes) is a 1963 Italian peplum film about Semiramis, a queen of the Neo-Assyrian...
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  • Semiramis Pekkan (born 30 September 1948) is a Turkish retired film actress and singer. She is the youngest daughter of her family. Pekkan's mother was...
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  • Semiramis was the legendary queen of King Ninus who succeeded him to the throne of Assyria. Semiramis or Sémiramis may also refer to: 584 Semiramis, a...
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    Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. After suspecting that the Semiramis hotel...
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    Semiramis InterContinental Hotel is a skyscraper and hotel complex located in Garden City, Cairo, Egypt. The 32-story building completed in 1987, and...
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  • Labdia semiramis is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found on the Solomon Islands. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Labdia semiramis. Wikispecies...
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  • HMS Semiramis was a fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate during the Age of Sail. She was built at Deptford Dockyard, launched on 25 July 1808, and eventually...
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  • Semiramis of the North is a designation given to some particularly capable female monarchs, after the legendary princess Semiramis of Assyria. Queens called...
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  • Semiramis is an Italian progressive rock band who produced one LP in 1973, Dedicato a Frazz. The band was formed in 1970 by Maurizio Zarrillo (keyboards)...
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    and Iran. Nebrarctia semiramis semiramis Nebrarctia semiramis elbursi (Daniel, 1937) (Pakistan) Savela, Markku. "Andala semiramis (Staudinger, 1891)"....
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  • Sémiramis is an opera by the composer Charles-Simon Catel. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The French-language libretto by Philippe...
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    Sémiramis (1746) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire, first performed in 1748 and published in 1749. Act 1 The plot is very similar to that of Voltaire's...
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    Semiramis (minor planet designation: 584 Semiramis) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun within the main asteroid belt. Photometric observations at the Mark...
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    Sémiramis is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 4 December...
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    Menua Canal (redirect from Semiramis Canal)
    The Menua Canal, also known as the Semiramis Canal or as the Shamiram Canal, is a canal joined with a series of hydraulic works such as aqueducts constructed...
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    Shammuramat (category Semiramis)
    Sammu-rāmat or Sammu-ramāt), also known as Sammuramat or Shamiram and Semiramis, was a powerful queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Beginning her career...
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    in Greek mythology as a centaur. The figures of King Ninus and Queen Semiramis first appear in the history of Persia written by Ctesias of Cnidus (c...
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  • The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel is a 1917 detective novella by the British writer A. E. W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud. Mason had...
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    lauded her accomplishments, calling her "The Star of the North" and the "Semiramis of Russia" (in reference to the legendary Queen of Babylon, a subject...
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    currently runs Binatone. He later married Turkish actress and singer Semiramis Pekkan (sister of singer Ajda Pekkan) in 1987, with whom he has a son...
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    Culture and Tourism. Retrieved 2009-02-06. Günseli İnal; Semiramis Arşivi (2005). Semiramis: Sultan'ın gözünden şenlik. YKY. p. 27. ISBN 978-975-08-0928-6...
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    Under rulers such as Adad-Nirari II, Ashurnasirpal, Shalmaneser III, Semiramis, Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal...
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    Hanging Gardens of Babylon (category Semiramis)
    also been attributed to the legendary queen Semiramis and they have been called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis as an alternative name. The Hanging Gardens...
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    Zulima (1740) Mahomet (1741) Mérope (1743) La princesse de Navarre (1745) Sémiramis (1748), inspiration for Semiramide, opera by Gioachino Rossini (1823)...
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    Aram. Ara is the subject of a popular legend in which the Assyrian queen Semiramis (Shamiram in Armenian), desiring the handsome Armenian king, wages war...
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    queen Semiramis waged war against Armenia to capture him and bring him back to her, alive, so she could marry him. During the battle, Semiramis was victorious...
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  • one of the generals of the mythological Assyrian king Ninus. He married Semiramis. He is said to have committed suicide, after which his widow married Ninus...
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    to be Semiramis, the legendary Assyrian queen. Lucian also notes that the erection of the temple at Hieropolis was ascribed by some to Semiramis who dedicated...
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    have identified with Semiramis, while others make her a later namesake of a much earlier (again, historically unattested) Semiramis. In David Rohl's theory...
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