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Li Qingzhao
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...meter that she was regarded as China's greatest female poet. In the waning days of the Northern Song Dynasty in the early 1100s, Li was a highly educated woman for her time, studying literature, writing poetry, and amassing an immense collection of...
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Andalusians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...medicine, and the arts. It was not until the expansion of Castilian-based Christianity into the region, which began in the 1100s but was not fully successful until the late 1500s, that the rich and vibrant culture of Andalusia was cut off from its eastern...
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Dutch Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Rome weakened, the Germanic Franks conquered the area and later introduced the Dutch to Christianity. From the 700s to the 1100s, the Dutch were subjected to violent raids by Viking sailors from Scandinavia. During this unstable period, power passed...
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Turkish Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Armenian speakers, began to speak Turkish, melding with the dominant Turks, whom they had originally outnumbered. During the 1100s the Seljuqs contended with the Byzantines and with Christian Crusaders from Europe for control in Anatolia, especially along...
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Welsh Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Normans built a series of wooden forts throughout Wales from which Norman lords held control over surrounding lands. In the late 1100s, they replaced the wooden strongholds with massive, turreted stone castles. From about 1140-1240, Welsh princes such as...
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Cypriots
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...accession, in 965, to complete control of Cyprus. When the governor of Cyprus rebelled against the Byzantine Empire in the late 1100s, the crusading forces of King Richard I seized the island and later sold it to the dispossessed king of Jerusalem. Thus began...
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Appanage Era
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The interpretation also set a new initial date for the era — the mid 1100s — which has become increasingly accepted by scholars in the field, and a number of new publications since the late...
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Kazakhstan and Kazakhs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...followed its collapse in the 700s, beginning with the Karakhanids who ruled southern Kazakhstan or Semireche from the 900s to the 1100s. They were replaced by the Karakitai (Kara Khitai), who succumbed to the Mongols during 1219 – 1221. Subsequently...
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Cathari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...branch of the sect, originating in the region of Albi, gave rise to the name of followers as Albigenses. As early as the 1100s, a form of dualism that held that Satan was, though a creature of God, an immensely powerful being, appeared in southern...
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Romania
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...stayed and intermarried with the Dacians, helping to shape the customs and language of the region. From the 200s through the 1100s, there was a series of invasions by various tribes from the north, including the Magyars and the Saxons. The northern region...
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