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In the French Congo, iron bars, shovels, hoes, blades, and iron double bells played the role of currency. In mid-nineteenth-century Nigeria, a slave cost 40 iron hoes. In 1824, 394 currency bars were found, 1.2m below the surface, at a re-used camp on Meon Hill, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Mickleton, Gloucestershire .
Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus.Its name translates from Latin as "The Rope;" in English translation it has been called The Shipwreck or The Fisherman's Rope. [1] [2] It is a Roman comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, Labrax.
This is a list of the ancient Baltic peoples and tribes. They spoke the Baltic languages (members of the broader Balto-Slavic), a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula, southern Baltic Sea coast in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east, to the northwest of the Eurasian steppe.
The 1475 Turkish invasion of Crimea rang the death knell of the Genoese colonies there, leading to the destruction of the Genoese fortresses on the peninsula. [5] The Turks built or rebuilt fortresses in all strategically important points of the peninsula, their main fortresses being Or Qapi at Perekop, Arabat, Yeni-Kale on the Kerch Strait, Gözleve, and Kefe.
The Old Stock Exchange is sited to fill the majestic sweep of the Spit (in Russian Strelka) of Vasilievsky Island, just opposite the Winter Palace.Thomon's design called for a peristyle of forty four Doric columns resting upon a massive stylobate of red granite [1] and supporting an entablature of triglyphs and slotted metopes.
Scythian Neapolis (Greek: Σκυθική Νεάπολις), also known as Kermenchik, was an Iranic settlement that existed in the Crimean Peninsula from the end of the 3rd century BC until the second half of the 3rd century AD.
Roughly 30,000 Union infantry were in the Hard Times Landing area, of whom about 10,000 were on transports. The men on the transports, which had pulled away from the landing and were sheltered behind a spit of land named Point Coffee, were intended to cross the river and occupy Grand Gulf once the Confederate batteries were subdued.
In the ancient period in this area was the ancient Greek town of Myrmekion and many ancient remains have been found. [1] [2]Yeni-Kale was built by Ottoman Turks in 1699–1706 on the Kerch peninsula that belonged to the Crimean Khanate.