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Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77.
Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. [2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. [3] [4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map. [5]
The name "Tmogvi" is derived from the Armenian word mog, meaning "pagan priest" or "magus". [1] The fortress is first mentioned in sources from the 9th century. [1] It was built as a defensive work controlling the ancient trade route between the Javakheti plateau and the gorge of Kura, over a gorge formed by the Kura River.
The Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens are the natural fissures in the rock of the Acropolis hill that were used as sites of worship for deities of the Panhellenic pantheon in antiquity. Traditionally a sharp distinction has been drawn between the state religion practised on the summit of the Acropolis and the cult practice of the ...
The city's environmental and infrastructure problems were the main reason why Athens failed to secure the 1996 Centenary Olympic Games. [44] Following the failed attempt to secure the 1996 Olympics, both the city of Athens and the Greek government, aided by European Union funds, undertook major infrastructure projects such as the new Athens ...
Eski Kermen or Eski-Kermen (Ukrainian: Ескі-Кермен; Russian: Эски-Кермен) was a cave town and fortress in the Crimea in the south of Ukraine. Founded by the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century to defend against the Göktürks , it was conquered by the Khazars in the 7th or 8th century.
The term is not usually used for the engraved decoration on small objects such as bones, which make up a large part of the art of the Upper Paleolithic, but might be used for the engraved images, usually of animals, that are commonly found in caves, though much less well known than the cave paintings of the same period; often the two are found ...
Cave City, Gondhrani. The exact history of the town is not known, nor who built the caves. Historians believe that the town was once a large Buddhist monastery dating back to the eighth century, when the region was part of a Buddhist kingdom. [4] André Wink in his book Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam: 7th-11th Centuries states ...