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The Golden Adornments of the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf [PDF]

هنر اسلامی, 2012
As the warriors of Islam entered Persia they realized that the people of this land behold an ancient historical, cultural and artistic heritage. The people of Persia also acknowledged that the new bestowed religion will ultimately enhance their culture ...
Alireza Bahrman
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“Like a safe tower on a steady rock”. Widows, wives and mothers in the ascetic elites of Late Antiquity

Tabula, 2016
In the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman empire underwent a series of changes that profoundly affected its political, economic, social and cultural organization.
Veronika Wieser
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Death of Eastern: How One Man Destroyed an Airline

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 2000
In 1986, when Frank Lorenzo took over Eastern Airlines, the country's third largest carrier was in decline: its route structure was inherently weak, its costs were sky high, and its stiff-necked labor unions fought with each other almost as much as they ...
Joseph G Ferrante
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Space use in Syrmia during the Migration and Avar periods

Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae
Lying between the Danube and Sava rivers, the region of Syrmia used to be the northern fringe of the Roman Empire and, later on, the southernmost land of the Avars.
Ivan Bugarski
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Construção e desconstrução do mito do quinto império na literatura colonial e pós-colonial portuguesa : O Branco da Motase de Rodrigues Júnior vs O Esplendor de Portugal de António Lobo Antunes

Carnets, 2010
The Fifth Empire myth sustained by the Estado Novo finds in Portuguese Colonial Literature a priviledged means of expression. Here the construction of the national myth is made up of concrete structures (railways, properties, etc...) whose realist ...
Agnès Levécot
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Rome and the Sasanian Empire in the fifth century A.D: a necessary peace [PDF]

, 2016
Since Ardashir’s victory over the Parthians in A.D 224 to his successors’ eventual defeat at the hands of the Arabs in 651 the Roman and Sasanian Empires had been bitter and deadly rivals. Throughout Late Antiquity the Roman-Sasanian relationship was dominated by competition; a constant battle for imperial prestige, military supremacy, cultural ...
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Johann P. Arnason & Kurt A. Raaflaub, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Chichester: Wiley & Sons, 2011)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2012
Arnason and Raaflaub’s edited volume, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, is the fifth volume in a series entitled The Ancient World: Comparative Histories.
Michael Gibbons, Michael Gibbons, Michael Gibbons, Michael Gibbons   +3 more
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The Syriac Aḥiqar, Its Slavonic Version, and the Relics of the Three Youths in Babylon

Slovene, 2013
The author argues that the earliest recension of the Slavonic Aḥiqar (Povestʹ ob Akire Premudrom) was produced in Bulgaria as a direct translation from Syriac, whereas the original Christian (Syriac) recension was created in the Syriac-speaking anti ...
Basil Lourié
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Rome’s seat of passion: An assessment of the archeology and history of the Circus Maximus

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2016
It is a place where the general public can gather communally to watch ludi, provisionally erasing invisible boundary lines which sharply divide one social class from another.
Cody Scott Ames
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Rethinking the Fifth Empire: António Vieira and the Clavis Prophetarum

, 2012
It is this paper’s purpose to introduce António Vieira’s model of the Fifth Empire and to contextualize it within the biblical exegesis tendencies of his time. Vieira’s conceptualization is of utmost importance for understanding the intellectual and religious environment of seventeenth-century Portugal: a disturbed time, during which people searched ...
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