Sendai
Sendai , city (1990 pop. 928,138), capital of Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Inshinomaki Bay. A major industrial and commercial city, it has industries that manufacture chemicals, metal goods, wooden dolls, and silk yarn. Long an educational center, Sendai is the seat of Tohoku Univ. and the Industrial Art Institute. In the 17th cent. the city was the stronghold of the powerful feudal lord Date Masamune. The Osaki Hachiman Shrine (built 1606) is there.
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Hungary's philosopher king Matthias Corvinus 1458-90.
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...September 1481. During the same year King Matthias also won a series of important victories...the bulwark of Europe. Ficino called Matthias a second Messiah, a second Moses, the...rich source of material in many fields. Matthias was not the only ruler Ficino wrote to...
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HISTORY NOEL MALCOLM ON A HUNGARIAN KING WHO LOVED BEAUTIFUL BOOKS AS MUCH AS WAR
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library...from the fabled collection of Matthias Corvinus, the king whose long reign...tells not only the life-story of Matthias Corvinus but also the later history of...
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The myth maker
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...behind him, his glory assured, Matthias Corvinus ("the Raven King"), the...Central Europe, at least, Matthias Corvinus possesses the combined mystique...honour where they make these 'Matthias castles' out of snow. The...
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Legend in the library
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...sumptuous library of King Matthias Corvinus, who ruled Hungary...the great powers and Matthias a powerful Renaissance...survive much beyond Matthias's death. It was also...the sort contained in Corvinus's library doesn...
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Medieval Hungary: Questing lost manuscripts.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/19/2008; 700+ words
; ...s most famous medieval king, Matthias Corvinus. If only it could be discovered...lively account of the search. Matthias, known as the "Raven King...domination. Hungarians came to regard Matthias's rule as a golden age, the...
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Japan's imperial couple visits Buda's Castle District
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/19/2002; ; 441 words
; ...including famed landmarks such as Matthias Church and the National Szechenyi Library...Akihito and Empress Michiko first toured Matthias Church, named after Hungary's most beloved king, Matthias Corvinus, who ruled in the 15th century. Hundreds...
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Transylvania trekking; In search of eccentricities in Old World Romania.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...check my guidebook and find that the statue is of Matthias Corvinus, the celebrated 15th-century Hungarian king. It...As it turns out, Cluj is the birthplace of King Matthias. When I seek out his house of birth, however, I...
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At the Gate of Christendoms. Jew, Muslims and "Pagans" in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...jurisdiction. The document itself did not survive in the original, but only in a transcript dated to the reign of King Matthias Corvinus (1452-1490) ("e transumto Mathiae regis") (Endlicher, pp. 473ff.; Marczali, pp. 158ff.). The author...
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Saints, Heroes and Vandals Venice's Checkered Past in the Balkans and Greece
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/4/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...wars. Giovanni Dalmata, who enjoyed a brilliant career in Rome, and so impressed the connoisseur and collector Matthias Corvinus during his decade at court in Hungary that the king ennobled him, is represented here by some hardly less striking...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/6/1994; 686 words
; ...Sir John Betjeman, poet, 1906. Deaths: Richard I (Coeur de Lion), King of England, killed in battle 1199; Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, 1490; Raphael Sanzio, painter, 1520; Albrecht Durer, artist, 1528; Sir Francis Walsingham...
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Matthias Corvinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Matthias Corvinus see Matthias Corvinus .
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Matthias I (Corvinus)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Matthias I (Corvinus) (1443–90) King of Hungary (1458–90...constant threat. After the death of King George of Bohemia (1471) Matthias was successful over Bohemia, and the Peace of Olomuc (1478) granted...
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Frederick III (Holy Roman Empire) (1415–1493; Ruled 1440–1493)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Frederick into an unequal conflict with Matthias Corvinus (1440/1443 – 1490...military defeat at the hands of Corvinus's superior army, which conquered...ultimately driven from Vienna, where Corvinus established his capital in 1485...
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Uladislaus II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...elected to the Bohemian throne. Matthias Corvinus , king of Hungary, invaded...virtual serfs. On the death of Matthias Corvinus (1490), the Hungarian magnates...abolishing the reforms of Matthias Corvinus and worsening the lot of the...
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Frederick III
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...George of Podebrad and Hungary to Matthias Corvinus . In Austria, his succession...undisputed claim. In 1485, Matthias Corvinus, who had invaded Bohemia and...again proved an advantage; Matthias died in 1490, and Frederick...
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