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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.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag was released in October 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U and in November 2013 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. Following the events of Assassin's Creed III , at the end of which Desmond sacrificed himself to save the Earth, Abstergo retrieved samples from his body to continue exploring ...
At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire was the wealthiest country in Africa [20] with its 14th-century emperor Mansa Musa believed to be one of the wealthiest individuals in history. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Besides being a hub of trade and mining, medieval Mali was a centre of Islam , culture and knowledge, with Timbuktu becoming a renowned place of ...
Mauro-Roman Kingdom. Emirate of Tlemcen. Rustamid dynasty. Sulaymanid dynasty. Zirid Dynasty. Hammadid dynasty. Almohad Caliphate. Kingdom of Tlemcen. Hafsids of Béjaïa.
Russia, home of over 100,000 rivers, [228] has one of the world's largest surface water resources, with its lakes containing approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water. [234] Lake Baikal , the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake ...
Herodotus claimed that there were, in total, 2.6 million military personnel, accompanied by an equivalent number of support personnel. [65] The poet Simonides, who was a contemporary, talks of four million; Ctesias gave 800,000 as the total number of the army that was assembled by Xerxes. [8]
Morocco is a Northern African country, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and the annexed Western Sahara. It is one of only three nations (along with Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. [ 97 ] A large part of Morocco is mountainous.