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The conversion of Mercia to Christianity occurred in the latter part of the 7th century, and was carried out almost entirely by Northumbrian and Irish monks of the Celtic Rite. Penda remained pagan to the end, but by the time of his defeat and death, Mercia was largely surrounded by Christian states.
The name 'Mercia' is a Latinisation of an Old English word derived from the Mercian Old English, Merce, meaning "borderland". [29] The dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John Trevisa , writing in 1387: [ 30 ]
The Holocaust of the Jewish people (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), or Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), as described in June 2013 at Auschwitz by Avner Shalev (Director of Yad Vashem) is the term generally used to describe the murder of ...
Even though most countries adopted translations or transliterations of the term "Holocaust" or "Shoah" (e.g. Spanish: Holocausto; Russian: Холокост Kholokost; Czech: Šoa; etc.), there are instances in which certain populations, frequently those populations which were affected by the Holocaust itself, have adopted 'unique' names which ...
The Holocaust and North Africa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503605435. Robert Satloff: Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (PublicAffairs, 2006). ISBN 1-58648-399-4; Michel Abitbol: The Jews of North Africa during the Second World War (Wayne state University Press Detroit, 1989).
Holocaust. Resistance. Revival. The Jewish People during World War II and the Post-War Period (1939-1948) Study Guide edited by I. Altman and P. Agmon. - Moscow: Holocaust Foundation, p. 344. 2000. ISBN 978-5-89897-005-5. Yehuda Bauer. American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The Kingdom of Mercia at its greatest extent (7th to 9th centuries) is shown in green, with the original core area (6th century) given a darker tint. This is a category for historical or geographical articles associated with the ancient Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.