Essaouira
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Essaouira, Morocco Amougdoul, Mogador An ancient port, its original name may have been taken from the Phoenician
migdol ‘Lookout Tower’. Mogador was a corruption of a Berber word for ‘safe anchorage’, although it has been suggested that it is a corruption of the Berber Magdoul, the name of a holy man buried here. It was refounded in 1765 by the new sultan, Sīdī Muhammad, who wanted to make it a commercial port to compete with Agadir; it was given its present name at the same time. This comes from the Arabic
as‐saouīra ‘Little Ramparts’ or ‘Little Fort’ from a diminutive of
sūr ‘wall’, indicating a fortification here. During the period of French rule it was called Mogador but the present name was readopted in 1956 when Morocco gained its independence.
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...innovator, such an erudite and experienced historian as Grant might have been expected to give a fresher view of this important period. Though it always gives good value, The Antonines lacks the punch of some of Grant's earlier work.
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/4/1985; ; 696 words
; ...their personal conduct, the general system of Augustus was equally adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and by the two Antonines. They persisted in the design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, without attempting to enlarge its limits. By every...
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...eighteenth century had reached a point of stability and definition comparable to that of the Roman Empire in the Age of the Antonines: 'The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful...
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Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/28/1999; 662 words
; ...peace of our times. Emperor Decius, 250 years after Caesar Augustus, pondered ``the general causes that since the time of Antonines (Augustus) had so impetuously urged the decline of the Roman greatness. He soon discovered that it was impossible to replace...
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 11/22/2008; ; 393 words
; ...with the idea of subject races." For Indians, in hindsight, he believed, British rule "might well be the age of the Antonines." ** Full version of these reviews, and more book news, are available on the Web. * [Accompanied by image of the book...
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Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Disturbers of the peace
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to blows. If anything, today's equivalent of the great powers were keen to stay out. We lived in Gibbon's age of the Antonines. The reason is obvious and therefore to some people unpalatable: the supremacy of the United States. True, China is supposed...
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The conquering hero as show-off
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...vanities and savagery of imperial rule. Yet the Latinate charm of his prose implied wry nostalgia, not only for the age of the Antonines, but also for the whole myth of Roman grandeur. In my undergraduate day, Professor F. E. Adcock continued to lisp in...
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Antonines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus .
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Eudemus of Rhodes
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Eudemus ’ name, but the significance of the title, which is first attested by Atticus Platonicus in the age of the Antonines, is still an open question, complicated by the fact that books IV-VI are identical with books V-VII of the Nicomachean...
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...defined by the author in the preface, according to a plan that expanded during composition: from the age of Trajan and the Antonines to the subversion of the western Empire; from the reign of Justinian in the East to the establishment of the second or German...
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Roman art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...idealization of the Augustan style and at the same time a growing sense of voluptuousness. Major works from the later period of the Antonines (138-192) are the column and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Rome). From the time of Caracalla to the death...
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Christianity
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Christians to worship the state and the Roman emperor. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximin, Decius, Valerian, and Diocletian and Galerius; Decius ordered the first official persecution in 250. In 313...
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