Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Danubian culture


In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  RUMANIA, or ROUMANIA [Romdnia] - Online Information article about RUMANIA, or ROUMANIA [Romdnia]
The coast is a low-lying region of sandhills, meres and marshes with one lagoon.
In 1908 the ports of Rumania were entered by 32,888 vessels of 9,269,000 tons, of which 30,504 of 6,529,000 tons belonged to the river (Danubian) trade.
The Tropaeum Trajani, or Adam Klissi monument (found near Rassova in the Dobrudja and removed to Bucharest museum), is a round stone structure of too ft. circumference and 40 ft. high, carved in low relief with scenes representing Trajan's conquest of Dacia.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/RUMANIA_or_ROUMANIA_Romdnia.html   (8037 words)

  
 Timeline of Slovene history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NOTE the ancient Veneti of the Adriatic (after whom Venice was named) are not the same people as the Venedes who once inhabited the Vistula region, and scholars do not consider any relation between the two.
Circa 1200 BC - the Danubian culture (inland) and the Terramare culture (along the coast) includes lands that are now part of Slovenia.
1920 - The "Kulturbund" - a cultural and educational organization of German national minority is established.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Slovene_history   (4223 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Byzantine Empire
The nations of the West were indeed barbarians in comparison with the cultured Byzantines, but the West had something for the lack of which no learning, no technical skill could compensate — the creative force of an imagination in harmony with the laws of nature.
We must not forget, however, that under the successor of Anastasius, Justin, the so-called circus factions kept bears for spectacles in the circus, and the Empress Theodora was the daughter of a bear-baiter.
Still the fact remains that cultured circles at that time began to deplore this gruesome amusement, and that the venationes, and with them the political significance of the circus, disappeared in the course of Byzantine history.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03096a.htm   (16915 words)

  
 Germany 4 from Hospitality North, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Villagers of this Danubian culture lived with their animals in large, gabled wooden houses, made pottery, and traded with Mediterranean people for fine stone and flint axes and shells.
They developed a thriving Bronze Age culture in Germany and traded amber from the Baltic coast for bronze, pottery, and beads from the Mediterranean.
From the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD the Germanic and Celtic tribes, constantly pressed by migrations from the north and east, were in contact with the Romans, who controlled southern and western Europe.
www3.bc.sympatico.ca /hospitalitynorth/germany3.htm   (3128 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Villanovan culture (Ancient History, Rome) - Encyclopedia
Villanovan culture, the culture of a people of N Italy in the early Iron Age (c.1100–700
B.C. The term is derived from the town of Villanova, near Bologna, where the first excavations of a Villanovan cemetery were conducted (1853–55).
The Villanovans brought with them a reasonably advanced Iron Age culture, closely related to the Hallstatt culture of the E Alps.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Villanov.html   (246 words)

  
 Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Prof.Barba, a native of Livadz, Greece, who is the President of the Union for Aromanian Language and Culture of Freiburg, Germany.
According to this, wrote Jenkins, `the modern Greek was at once the spiritual heir of all the splendid intellectual endowments of the classical age, and the political heir of all the vast pretensions, both religious and imperial, of
This is not an easy task given the general inhibitions in Greece, a country where cultural issues are often confused with the political and even military ones.
www.vlachophiles.net   (10971 words)

  
 Bulgarian Classicists M through Z
TRSW: On the Hellenization process of the Iron Age culture in Macedonia or on the early contacts between Macedonia and the Aegaean region.
TRSW: Cultural monuments from the District Museum in Pernik.
TRSW: Rome Was in the Captivity of Exotic Thrace (The cultural aspect of Thrace as reflected in the intellectual life of Rome).
www.ceecs.net /BulgarianCL_M_to_Z.htm   (9038 words)

  
 Turkic Republics and Communities - Turks, Turkish, Turk
Silk Road Seattle Project: Traditional Cultures in Central Asia
Khan Asparoukh, first Turkic ruler of Danubian Bulgaria
Role of Lower Volga Region in Development of Trade and Interaction of Cultures on the Great Volga Way - Russian essay by P.V. Kazakov
www.khazaria.com /turkic/index.html   (956 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.