Search results for "Council of Florence" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the ... in its provinces was not only the death of the heir to the throne but ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set on ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- : singular see below: Origin of the name ) is both the largest and ... metropolis with an urban population of 3.3 million and a metropolitan ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now ... Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents ...107 KB (16,223 words) - 20:24, 30 June 2023
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Orthodox Churches as decided at the Council of Florence and decreed by the ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
