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- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... (phoînix), through its close association with the famous dye Tyrian ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- Iron Ages parallels that of the early Greeks. The Tuscan area was inhabited ... its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... into the combined deity. Similar to the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians also ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the ... B.C.E. in central Italy, and the Western Greeks, the Latins adopted writing ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources ... He is also the first historical Westerner documented to have converted ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live. Aliens ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one ... were sent to an Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos. According ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 07:39, 25 May 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... cities, sent a fleet to punish the Greeks. The Persians landed in Attica ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... class of cells, called Kupffer cells, line the vascular networks; their primary ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... Juniper "berries," the fleshy female cones, which are commonly ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
