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Cities were defensive entities, and its citizens were persons who were "economically competent to bear arms, to equip and train themselves." [ 35 ] According to one theorist, the requirement that individual citizen-soldiers provide their own equipment for fighting helped to explain why Western cities evolved the concept of citizenship, while ...
Rizal is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines and has been recommended to be so honored by an officially empaneled National Heroes Committee. However, no law, executive order or proclamation has been enacted or issued officially proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as a national hero. [ 9 ]
The most well-known Ukrainian artist and national hero, Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), has a reputation as the author of poetry such as Haidamaky (1841) and Kobzar (1840). The rise of common language to such heights in literature is further proof of the distinction between Ukrainians and their neighbours.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, foreign agricultural companies, particularly the United Fruit Company (UFC), were drawn to Guatemala. These companies were bolstered by the country's authoritarian rulers and support from the U.S. government , which enforced harsh labor regulations and granted vast concessions to wealthy landowners.
Order of the National Hero: 2000 3 Benin: National Order of Benin: Grand Cross is the highest grade of the order. Bhutan: Order of the Dragon King: First Class is the highest grade of the order. Bolivia: Order of the Condor of the Andes: Grand Collar is the highest grade of the order. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Order of Freedom: 1994
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to a group of people (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.), who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually one of the most important legendary figures of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
Municipia had originally been communities of non-citizens among Rome's Italic allies. Following the Social War, Roman citizenship was awarded to all Italy, with the result that a municipium was effectively now a community of citizens. The category was also used in the provinces to describe cities that used Roman law but were not colonies.
The culture and the youth were formed to the ideal of kalos kagathos ("beautiful and good"). Aristotle gives his paideia proposal in Book VIII of the Politics . In this, he says that, "education ought to be adapted to the particular form of constitution, since the particular character belonging to each constitution both guards the constitution ...