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- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... The war went badly for the ill-prepared Greeks; the only saving grace ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... Although Western Europe was religiously divided from the Byzantine ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... participated in an expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- ) is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their ... Pan was considered to be the god responsible for the adjudication ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European ... She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest ... Immediately after the last ice age, the Sahara was a much wetter place ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- The Horn of Africa is a large extension of land that protrudes from ... In a more general way, the term "Horn of Africa" is also ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create ... sculpture: bas-relief (low-relief), in which the sculpture is raised only slightly ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... led some Serbs to see others as a threat to the purity of their heritage. ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between ... they were much more advanced than the Greeks. The city of Alexandria became ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- :This article describes the unit of angle. or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- ) (ca. 418 B.C.E.–362 B.C.E.) was a Theban general and statesman ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure called ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... of eroticized female divinities featured in the legends of surrounding Indo ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
