Mesozoic
Mesozoic The middle of three eras that constitute the
Phanerozoic period of time. The Mesozoic (literally ‘middle life’) was preceded by the
Palaeozoic Era and followed by the
Cenozoic Era. It began with the
Triassic approximately 248 Ma ago and ended around 65 Ma at the start of the
Tertiary. The Mesozoic comprises the Triassic,
Jurassic, and
Cretaceous Periods.
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Vostochnye Balkany na karte Ptolemeia. Kritikobibliograficheskie izyskaniia
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Ptolemy's 2nd-century CE Geographia (ch. 10, "Lower Moesia," and ch. 11, "Thrace"). The text is written in Russian...54 place names and 11 ethnonyms found in Chaper 10 on Lower Moesia in Ptolemy's Geographia. In a parallel way, Chapter 2 includes...
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Die gotische Bibel.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...s translation of the Bible, carried out in fourth-century Moesia, to Ostrogothic Italy of the sixth century, from where our...a geographical and chronological bridge between the Goths in Moesia and the Ostrogoths in Italy. The publishers are to be warmly...
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First among cities, home of the gods, golden Rome.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; 635 words
; ...near Black Sea around 230. 248 Goths invade Roman province of Moesia, 248-249. 284 Diocletian rules the Roman Empire, 284...to cross the Danube River and settle in the Roman province of Moesia. 378 The Visigoths plunder Thrace. 382 Emperor Theodosius...
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Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...how the cult functioned within a more limited area of the empire-the provinces of Germania, Raetia, Noricum, Illyricum, Moesia, and Dacia. In fact, however, the book divides into two loosely linked investigations: a rather sophisticated study of...
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Immigration channels run in both directions Let's consider what eastern Europeans give Britain - and what it takes from them
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/7/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of it). This is infuriating for someone who was born in Europe in a country once comprised of the ancient lands of Thrace, Moesia and Macedonia. Its borders have remained more or less intact for 1,000 years; so much for the unstable Balkans. About nine...
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Friends, Romans or countrymen? Barbarians in the empire. (Roman Empire) (Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...such transfers had become common practice: Marcus settled barbarians in Dacia (Romania), Pannonia (Western Hungary), Moesia (Romania-Bulgaria), the Rhineland and Italy itself, although the last-named settlement was not a success. Moves of...
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Supplementum epigraphicum graecum; v.53-2, 2003.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 447 words
; ...volume contains epigrams 451 to 2267 arranged by region from Boiotia to Varia with passages through such places as Thessaly, Moesia, the north shore of the Black Sea, Crete, Gaul, Susiana, and Egypt. Each article describes the medium inscribed, its...
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Shchit Happens ..., THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...dispatched to distant Khakassia in 1995, is now in charge of the whole empire. Just like Decius, who was dispatched to Moesia to pacify the legions and returned as Roman emperor. But what will be the fate of Deripaska's empire now, when Russian oligarchs...
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The BARBARIAN Threat.(ancient Roman empire)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...northeastern edge of the Roman Empire (the area known today as the Ukraine). In 248 or 249, they invaded the Roman province of Moesia but were successfully repelled. About this time, the Goths split into two groups, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths. By 374...
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GO TO ROME.(ancient capital of the Roman empire)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...year Alaric was born--A.D. 376--the emperor Valens would allow the Goths to cross the Danube River and settle in Lower Moesia (modern Serbia and Bulgaria)? That the emperor Theodosius would establish this Imperial School to instruct boys from the...
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Moesia
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Moesia an ancient country of southern Europe, corresponding to parts of modern Bulgaria and Serbia. It became a province of Rome in ad 15, remaining part of the Roman Empire until the 7th century.
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Silistra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...textiles, furniture, foodstuffs, and bricks. The Roman Durostorum, it was founded in 29 BC and became an important town of Moesia. Its importance continued under Byzantine and Bulgar rule. After the Turkish conquest (1388) the town was strongly fortified...
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Gallus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Decius' son, as his colleague, or nominal coruler. In Gallus' reign the Persians overran Mesopotamia, and the Goths invaded Moesia and Thrace. In 252 or 253 a new invasion was repelled in the Danube valley by the general Aemilianus, whose troops proclaimed...
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Decius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his name. He undertook to rebuild the state, and in an effort to revive the state religion he persecuted the Christians vigorously. He was killed in the attempt to repel an invasion of the Goths into Moesia and was succeeded by Gallus .
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Ulfilas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...performed episcopal duties among his people north of the Danube and, persecuted by non-Christian Goths, settled his followers in Moesia (Bulgaria). He also assumed duties as judge and intellectual leader. In 381 he was summoned by the emperor Theodosius to...
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