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  • | successor =Peter II of Portugal | suc-type =Heirbrother ... Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu ...
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  • Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen ... A pious Catholic, Isabella focused on converting the citizens of her ...
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  • to 384. Possibly born in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire ... Damasus I was raised in the service of the church of the martyr St ...
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  • official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...
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  • the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death ... a treaty with the Muslims after the battle of Alarcos. Representations of ...
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  • As Pope, Innocent III represents the height of the medieval papacy. His papacy ... Lotario de' Conti di Segni was the son of Count Trasimund of ...
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  • or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... Portugal, desperate to reestablish trade with India after Islam had ...
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  • A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...
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  • June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... Church to reform by launching Vatican II and abolishing some antiquated ...
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  • The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ... ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ...
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  • against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...
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  • the twentieth century. The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...
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  • The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... by human activity. The resident population of Fernando de Noronha is less ...
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  • Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...
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  • is engaged in the ministry and leadership of religious group. Within the ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...
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  • 1934. In 1939, Time magazine called her one of the two most influential women ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...
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  • The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...
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  • The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom ... Within his own community, the Oba is symbolic of a long cultural and ...
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  • 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... in 1974 after it became known that one of his closest aides had been ...
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