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  • at Gdańsk in the 980s, after a series of wars against the local tribes, ... The Swedish wars of the 17th century stalled the city’s economic ...
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  • which lent itself well to romances and Gothic horror, but was inadequate ... of Europe in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars which would form such an important ...
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  • the noble Chingachgook and Uncas and the gothic evil of Magua, are stylized ... |Italian coast, Napoleonic Wars, 1745 |- |1843 |[http://www.gutenberg ...
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  • The main square of the Gornji Grad is dominated by the Gothic church ... was completed between the two World Wars. In October 1918, the Croatian ...
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  • ===Napoleonic wars and beyond=== century was marked by the Napoleonic wars, and particularly by the Battle ...
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  • part doppelgänger narrative, and part Gothic fiction. ... adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses. This novel presents ...
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  • thin by domestic violence and drug-wars, has stood the test of time ... crown was "a miserable thing and a Gothic fancy" but the people ...
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  • from devastation brought on by world wars, and with the international ... the city was founded in 1158. Nearby, the Gothic hall-church Heiliggeistkirche ...
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  • of his life, he ruled all of Gaul save the Gothic province of Septimania and ... as Pannonia. Theudebert interfered in the Gothic War on the side of the Gepids ...
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  • Jarlaath, the vocalist of the French gothic metal band Penumbra, plays ... quot; from the John Williams score to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. ...
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  • invasions of Italy known as the Italian Wars that would continue for several ... by a retreat into conservative late-Gothic conventions. The Italian ...
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  • During the Gothic period (1250-1530), however, the secular power of the archbishops suffered severe reverses in the Hungarian wars, but this ...
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  • with the king, and thus claimed a direct Gothic inheritance. Royal knights ... was one of the causes of the Carlist Wars. In Castile disputes over ...
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  • architectural styles, including ornate Gothic, Victorian, Neoclassical ... on L.A. Law, The West Wing, and in the Star Wars films Episode II: Attack of ...
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  • of the Halloween season itself, works of Gothic, and horror literature, nearly ... States in the period between the two World Wars. Mass-produced Halloween costumes ...
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  • an enormous number because of the civil wars, numbering about 60, were ... persecutions of Christians. The civil wars which followed have led the ...
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  • united with Serbia during the 1990s wars. Serbs regard Montenegrins ... The background to the two Balkan Wars in 1912–1913 lies in the incomplete ...
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  • During the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) the French emperor made it ... royal buildings, and palaces, such as the Gothic Sophienkirche, the Alberttheater ...
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  • Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars. Sparta owed its military ... During the Punic Wars, Sparta was an ally of the Roman Republic. Spartan ...
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  • the distinctive semi-circular portico and Gothic spire of All Souls Church ... the United Kingdom, or who oppose foreign wars have accused the BBC of pro ...
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  • an enormous amount of wealth (the Dacian Wars were commemorated on Trajan ... The Hungarian ruler was successful in these wars, and Transylvania was incorporated ...
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  • gained its independence during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. ... of the empire's conquests, frequent wars with European powers, migrations ...
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  • "Cutt, 87. In 1835, she published a Gothic novel for adolescents titled Shanty the Blacksmith; it employs all the tropes of the genre– ...
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  • The seventh century was a tumultuous period of civil wars between ... unify a large portion of Europe. In the wars that lasted just beyond 800 ...
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  • The ornate Neo-Gothic Parliament Building faces Castle Hill on the ... -and has been the scene of battles and wars since the thirteenth century ...
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  • camp during the First and Second World Wars. It is now a conservation ... and Old St Paul’s Cathedral, a wooden Gothic-revival structure built in ...
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  • perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script, and use of many difficult ... disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders ...
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  • defeating the Celtic tribes in the Gallic Wars of 58-51 B.C.E.. The Romans ... vision of construction became known as the Gothic Architecture during the later ...
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  • After hundreds of years' involvement in innumerable wars, Austria ... The Babenberg era produced excellent Romanesque and early Gothic architecture ...
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  • Sebastian, the only all-steel church in Gothic style in Asia. Many of the ... *Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American ...
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  • but they still suffered in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). ... incorporates materials from the demolished gothic church of San Giovanni in Conca.]] ...
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  • of the Catholic League, during the French Wars of Religion, which culminating ... In the period between the World Wars, Paris was famed for its cultural ...
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  • – a reputation strengthened by the World Wars of the twentieth century. ... century. Julian, Caesar of Gaul, waged wars in the Low Countries between ...
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  • Kolkata has many buildings adorned with Gothic, Baroque, Roman, Oriental and Indo-Islamic (including Mughal) motifs. The "City of Palaces ...
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  • #039;s attentions were diverted by its Wars of the Roses (civil war). ... ===Civil wars and penal laws=== [[Image:Oliver_CromwellUT.jpg|left ...
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  • Christian Church, and conducted successful wars against Holy Roman Emperor ... The Deluge is the name assigned to a series of wars in the mid-to ...
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  • emerged from the devastation of the great wars of the twentieth century, ... and guildhalls. Lofty, richly decorated Gothic cathedrals were built in ...
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  • modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture ... The Gothic and Carpian campaigns in the Balkans during 238–269 C ...
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  • Dec. 1997): 19-26 to nineteenth century Gothic fiction in such works as ... Other critics, like Frederick C. Crews, author of The Memory Wars: ...
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  • the Industrial Revolution, and the Gothic Revival. The city's ... relatively untouched by the various civil wars during the Middle Ages. ...
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  • long series of European and North African wars, though, with the exception ... ===Phillip II and the wars of religion=== The division of the Habsburg ...
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  • of southern India. However, subsequent wars with the British led to the ... 1962; and with Pakistan, which resulted in wars in Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 ...
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  • was marked by victory in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. ... adapted by Nash in the "Indian Gothic" style inspired loosely ...
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  • The Liberal Wars, also known as the Portuguese Civil War, was a war ... own spheres of influence. The colonial wars had the same effects in Portugal ...
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  • century, but the economic cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire ... countries and at different times engaged in wars with Spain, France and Germany ...
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  • and is home to many captured cannon from past wars as well as the Stanford White-designed Battle Monument. Though the military reservation is quite ...
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  • English/Germanic terms god (guþ, gudis in Gothic, gud in modern Scandinavian ... * Deism developed in response to the cruel wars of religion that ravaged ...
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  • just to the north of) the multi-ethnic Gothic kingdom, Oium. Settlements ... vacuum created with the end of Hunnic and Gothic rule, Slavic tribes, possibly ...
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  • Houses of Lancaster and York, known as the Wars of the Roses, ended in 1487 ... Henry VII, won the final conflict in the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of ...
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  • Empire, and waged a series of successful wars against the Arab Caliphates ... Feodor was followed by a period of civil wars and foreign intervention known ...
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  • include the Bank of Spain, the neo-Gothic Almudena Cathedral, Atocha Station, and the Catalan art-nouveau Palace of Longoria. Las Ventas Bullring ...
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