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Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, [ 10][ 11] probably in 482. [ 12] A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), [ 13] he came from a peasant family thought to have been of either of Illyro-Roman [ 14][ 15][ 16] or Thraco-Roman [ 17][ 18][ 19] origin. The name Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of ...
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [ 1] – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with ...
Mauro-Roman Kingdom. Emirate of Tlemcen. Rustamid dynasty. Sulaymanid dynasty. Zirid Dynasty. Hammadid dynasty. Almohad Caliphate. Kingdom of Tlemcen. Hafsids of Béjaïa.
Crimea. / 45.3; 34.4. Crimea[ b] ( / kraɪˈmiːə / ⓘ kry-MEE-ə) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine.
England. / 51.500°N 0.117°W / 51.500; -0.117. England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. [ 6] It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers approximately 62%, and over 100 smaller adjacent islands.
Rastafari. Rastafari often claim the flag of the Ethiopian Royal Standard as was used during Haile Selassie's reign. It combines the conquering lion of Judah, symbol of the Ethiopian monarchy, with red, gold, and green. Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
This is a list of the symbols of the states and union territories of India. Each state and union territory has a unique set of official symbols, usually a state emblem, an animal, a bird, a flower and a tree. A second animal (fish, butterfly, reptile, aquatic animal or heritage animal) sometimes appears, as do fruits and other plants, and there ...