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  Learn more about List of battles (alphabetical) in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Byzantine influence over Antioch was patently evidenced when, in 1165, Bohemond married a niece of the emperor and installed a Greek patriarch in the city, who remained in his position until he died in an earthquake five years later.
The emperor was buried at Antioch and the Germans became an insignificant contingent during the crusade.
In 1254 the quarrel between Antioch and Lesser Armenia was at length put to rest with the marriage of Bohemond VI and Sibylla, daughter of Hethoum I of Lesser Armenia.
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 Antioch - Crystalinks
The Amanus mountains are crossed by roads to Antioch and Aleppo, the chief pass being Baylan, the celebrated Syrian Gates.
Antioch on the Orontes, also called Syrian Antioch, was situated on the eastern side of the Orontes River, in the far southeastern corner of Asia Minor.
Antioch gave its name to a certain school of Christian thought, distinguished by literal interpretation of the Scriptures and insistence on the human limitations of Jesus.
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 Antioch | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
The most famous battle of the first crusade, the beseiged crusaders, inside of Antioch, sallied forth arranged into six divisions, defeating their Saracen attackers in a brutal engagement, were the heavy cavalry of the knights, using cohesion in a frontal charge, shattered the bulk of Kerbogha’s army.
Present at the battle was Godrey de Bouillon, one of the nine worthies.
Antioch, in Syria, was the third largest and third most important city in the Roman Empire (after Rome and Alexandria).
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 CTW Development: Knightly Armies VS Other Armies, a battle list 950-1500 - Total War Center Forums
The Battle of Basian was fought between the Georgians and the Seljuk Turks of Rüm at the place of Basian, 60 kilometers northeast of the city of Erzurum (in modern Turkey) in 1203.
In the battle of Graus, Castile and the moorish Kingdom of Zaragoza defeat Aragon.
The battle of Nicopolis is exemplary because, as often, the impetuous charge of the knights while being very powerfull (they indeed entered into the janissary in front of them like in hot butter) meant they had lost the battle (the rest of the turkish troops isolating them from the rest of the army).
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 Scenario: The War in Space Outline - Future - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This gives a trimmed view of the Battle of the Belt and acts as a chronology that provides the name of the battles, when they took place, who won, who lost, new technologies introduced in the battle, outcome, and consequence.
As soon as the battle was finished, he whisked the fleet back to his provisional capital of Tal Darin, and launched a preemptive strike against the rebels.
The battle saw the release of computer viruses into the Hegemony fleets that broke down effective cooperation between units, defection of all of the MinCol units, and the loss of communication with over half of the Hegemony bases, resulting in a terrific defeat for the Fleet.
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 Battle of Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Battle of Antioch (145 BC), Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt overthrew of Seleucid king Alexander Balas but died in battle.
In the Siege of Antioch (1097–1098), soldiers of the First Crusade took the city and were besieged in turn.
In the Siege of Antioch (1268), Sultan Baibars of Egypt overthrew the crusader kingdom of Antioch.
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 Battle of Antioch (145 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Antioch in 145 BC saw the defeat and overthrow of Seleucid king Alexander Balas by Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt, but the Egyptian pharaoh died in the battle.
Alexander Balas became king of Syria and Pergamum containing the remnant of the Seleucid empire in 150 BC by defeating Demetrius Soter.
At a pitched battle near Antioch, the forces of Demetrius and Ptolemy were successful but Ptolemy suffered a fatal wound.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: The Siege and Capture of Antioch
This battle was fought on the Wednesday before the beginning of Lent, on the fifth day before the Ides of February, with the favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth God forever and ever.
I permitted you to have the city of Nicaea, and to win all battles and I conducted you hither to this point, and I have grieved at the misery which you have suffered in the siege of Antioch.
Moreover, they decided about the battle as follows: that two double lines should be made of the Count's and Bishop's people, so that the foot soldiers went before the knights and halted at the command of the princes; and the knights were to follow them and guard them from the rear.
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 THE BATTLE OF ANTIOCH
It was within the walls of Antioch that the disciples of Jesus Christ first assumed the title of Christians, and the apostle Peter was named the first pastor of the young church.
For a long time Antioch was considered in Christendom as the eldest daughter of Sion ; it bore the name of Theopolis (the city of God), and the pilgrims visited it with no less respect than Jerusalem.
The ramparts of Antioch, whose solidity equaled that of a rock, were three leagues in extent.
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 ContraCostaTimes In the Middle: Antioch Middle School struggles with mid-life crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Antioch Middle is completing its second round of post-assessments and will begin its third round of pre-assessments next week.
Three boys, at least one a current Antioch Middle School student, sat on the sidewalk down the street from Antioch Middle School today, their arms behind their back, their hands cuffed.
If they haven't quite untangled the mess that is last year's test scores for Antioch Middle School and Live Oak High, the state and Antioch Unified School District officials have at least found either end of the rope.
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 StarCraft Hero - Fenix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He is both cunning and powerful, and has fought against the enemies of the Protoss in countless battles.
Capable of strong empathy and tremendous rage, Fenix has proven himself to be one of the greatest Protoss warriors of all time.
During the battle of Antioch on Aiur, Fenix and his companions were overrun by the Zerg.
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 Siege of Antioch
I would dare, I say, were it not arrogant to judge, to place this battle ahead of the fights of the Maccabees, since if Maccabaeus with three thousand felled forty-eight thousand of the enemy, more than sixty thousand of the enemy were here turned in flight by a force of forty knights.
For we know well enough, son, that you are mighty in battle, and valiant and resourceful, and that no host of Christians or pagans can have any courage before your face, but are wont to flee at the mention of your name, as sheep flee before the wrath of a lion.
There the Lord worked marvelously as well in the horses as in the men; forsooth, the men were not called away from battle by avarice, and those pack horses which their masters had led into battle, after a scant feeding, now very easily followed the sleekest and swiftest horses of the Turks.
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 Antioch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kids were the winners in annual Run and Walk
A record 659 runners participated in the 30th Annual Holiday Run and Walk for Health at Contra Loma Regional Park in Antioch on Saturday.
The East County NAACP’s After School Sewing Program provides at-risk girls with life-enriching alternatives to cruising malls and watching television.
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