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  • from 541 until his death. He waged the Gothic War against the Byzantine ... just before the conclusion of the Gothic Wars, was that Totila was a ...
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  • to the renovation of Westminster Abbey in Gothic style. Work began, at great ... the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey in the Gothic style. It continues to be ...
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  • of the world's finest examples of the Gothic style of architecture. Begun ... Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, the porches ...
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  • they had been conquered by Rome in the Gothic War (535–554), a war with ... In general, the terminology of a divided Gothic people disappeared gradually ...
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  • of Elizabeth I. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. ... claimant to the throne at the end of the Wars of the Roses who ultimately ...
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  • His disinterest in governance led to the Wars of the Roses between the House ... ==The Wars of the Roses== Disaffected nobles who had grown in power ...
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  • into the empire. The Roman army under the Gothic commander Arnegisclus met ... through the sword of Mars supremacy in all wars was assured to him (Jordanes ...
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  • in bulk, as warlords in the Chinese civil wars exported them to raise cash ... Gothic sculpture evolved from the early stiff and elongated style ...
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  • In the First and Second Sicilian Wars, Carthage was in control of ... The Gothic War took place between the Ostrogoths and the Eastern Roman ...
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  • is an exercise in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The building was one ... political climate following the end of the Wars of the Roses meant that future ...
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  • was threatened by others (e.g. Persian or Gothic tribes) the connotation of ... as the barbarization of the Roman Empire. Gothic and Vandal soldiers were ...
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  • established as a consequence of the Dacian Wars during 101–106 C.E., comprising ... (under Decebalus) were engaged in two wars with the Romans. ...
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  • most pristine and varied collections of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, neoclassicism ... Since this was the Gothic period, everything was built in grandiose ...
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  • The Huns under Attila invaded Padua in 452, Gothic kings Odoacer ... the city changed hands (in 1509) during the wars of the League of Cambray. ...
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  • is known for its musical rhythm and Gothic horror. Both poems exhibit ... especially during the Napoleonic wars. He translated two of Schiller ...
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  • population, it was plundered in the Hussite Wars in the fifteenth century. ... became a target of protracted disputes and wars mostly between Czech and Polish ...
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  • Pelagius II was seemingly a native of Rome, but of Gothic descent ... #039;s finances were largely exhausted by wars with the resurgent Persia ...
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  • The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic revival style ... *2007's Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars would once again ...
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  • until he died in 534. Ironically the Gothic War in Italy, which was meant ... with the help of barbarians for her wars (gentium barbararum auxilio ...
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  • emperor. To this end he directed his great wars and his colossal activity ... any before thus funding Justinian's wars; and finally, his talented ...
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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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