Itzá
Itzá , Maya of Yucatán (Mexico) and Petén (Guatemala). Probable founders of Chichén Itzá , which they occupied at various times from c.514 to 1194, they moved (1450?) S from Campeche to Lake Petén. Here, in spite of sporadic attempts by the Spanish to convert or subdue them after the visit of Cortés in 1525, the Itzá (the last strong, independent Mayan tribe) remained until driven from their capital, Tayasal, in 1697.
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Urban life and local politics in Roman Bithynia; the small world of Dion Chrysostomos.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 585 words
; ...Urban life and local politics in Roman Bithynia; the small world of Dion Chrysostomos...microcosm of an area of the Roman Empire, Bithynia, in what is today western Turkey. He...story in the context of the history of Bithynia before the Roman conquest in order to...
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Rome on the potomac: like it or not, America today finds itself an imperial power committed to maintaining an empire. The only question is what kind of empire? (The United States)(Cover Story).(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The International Economy; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ambitions were not slaked because to his west lay Bithynia, and Bithynia controlled the Hellespont, linking the Black Sea...strategic leverage point in the region. He could crush Bithynia in a week's time and take that economic and strategic...
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La Bithynie au Moyen Âge
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The book's purpose is to explore Bithynia's social history and to document the...provides a well documented sketch of Bithynia's fortifications. Annie Pralong details...establishments. The economic history of Bithynia is discussed by Jacques Lefort and Maria...
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Those Merry Years LXXXIII to LXIX
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/17/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...homosexual affair between the young soldier Caesar and the king of Bithynia, and blown it up into an absurd tale wherein the king and...wizardry and high-class philandering to go anywhere near Bithynia. And it's a shame that the author couldn't have allowed...
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Hannibal.(Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Antiochus in his campaigns of 192-190 and taking refuge in Bithynia. There, in 183, with his host King Prusias about to hand...survive and when Hannibal waged "world war" from Spain to Bithynia. In the end, without strong naval support to control the...
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BOOKS: HISTORY - At least he cut their throats first Caesar By Adrian Goldsworthy WEIDENFELD pounds 25 pounds 22.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/21/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...was the time he spent at the perfumed court of Nicomedes in Bithynia. Rumours abounded that the eastern potentate and the handsome...and Caesar had to put up with the nickname "the Queen of Bithynia" for some time after. On his return voyage, there occurred...
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What happened to Hannibal after he lost to the Romans in 202 B.C.?(Ask Calliope)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2004; 463 words
; ...When the Romans defeated Syrian troops, Hannibal again fled, this time to the court of the king of Bithynia. When the army of the Bithynia's king lost to the Romans, the Romans demanded that the 63-year-old Hannibal be handed over to...
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The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...absentee is Pliny the Younger, though it is his exchange of letters with Emperor Trajan in 112, when his governorship of Bithynia brought him into contact with the Christian "problem" (10.96-97), that provides us with our earliest direct evidence...
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Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World, A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Insight Turkey; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...by Scott Redford, "Bapheus and Pelekanon" by Rudi Paul Lindner, "Religious v. Ethnic Identity in Fourteenth-Century Bithynia: Gregory Palamas and the Case of the Chionai" by Ruth A. Miller, and "The Role of the Bursa Palace in Preparing Bread...
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St. Andrew the Apostle, Patron Saint of Fishermen.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 11/30/2007; 653 words
; ...thousands to Christianity were attributed to him. He was credited with setting up parishes throughout Asia Minor, in Pontos, Bithynia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, Russia, and Byzantium. In Patras, Greece, he converted Maximilla, wife of the ruler Aigeates...
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Bithynia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bithynia , ancient country of NW Asia Minor, in...autonomy after Cyrus the Great incorporated Bithynia into the Persian Empire. After the death...Mithradates VI of Pontus had designs on Bithynia, which was ruled by Nicomedes IV (sometimes...
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...some of the finest Latin lyric poems. In 57 Catullus went to Bithynia on the staff of Memmius, who was to be governor of that Eastern...recording this act of devotion in a moving poem. After a year in Bithynia he returned to Italy and probably lived in Rome the rest of...
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Pliny the Younger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...sent him on a special mission to investigate corruption in Bithynia. He died there about 2 years later. Pliny's letters are...and the tenth is his official correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia. Also preserved is his Panegyricus, a speech praising Trajan...
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Paphlagonia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Paphlagonia , ancient country of N Asia Minor, between Bithynia and Pontus on the Black Sea coast, in modern Turkey. A mountainous...political unit and was annexed and occupied by the kings of Bithynia and Pontus respectively. It was won (63 BC) by the Romans...
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Constantine I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...offended at His people's view of His nature. Therefore, in May 325 Constantine convened a council of bishops at Nicaea in Bithynia. This convocation created the Nicene Creed, which established the orthodox view that Christ was of the same substance (homoousios...
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