Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania - are characterized by the specific land-use system, settlement pattern, and organization of the family farmstead units preserved since the late Middle Ages, dominated by their fortified churches, which illustrate building periods from the 13th to 16th centuries. They have been listed by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites..
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel - the Austrian embassy at the Frankfurt diet, but in 1818 he returned to Vienna. Meanwhile he had published his collected Geschichte (1809) and two series of lectures, Über die neuere Geschichte (1811) and Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur (1815). After his return to Vienna from Frankfurt he edited Concordia (1820-1823), and began the issue of his Sämtliche Werke. He also delivered lectures, which were republished in his Philosophie des Lebens (1828) and in his Philosophie der Geschichte (1829). He died on the 11th of January 1829 at Dresden. A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle.
Kamakura period - with the destruction of the shogunate and the short reestablishment of imperial rule under the Emperor Go-Daigo by Ashikaga Takauji, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kusunoki Masashige. The Kamakura period is also said to be the beginning of the Japanese Middle Ages which also includes the Muromachi period and the beginning of the Japanese Feudal Period which lasted until the Meiji Restoration. < Heian period History of Japan Kemmu restoration >.
Khwarezmia - and on the northeast with the Huns of Transiaxartesia. Alternative spellings for the name of the capital city Khiva are numerous and include Khorasam, Khoresm, Khwarezm, Khwarizm, Khwarazm and Chorezm. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early history 2 Classical times 3 Middle Ages 4 Reference 5 External Link Early history According to Tolstov, the first inhabitants of the area were Hurrians from the area of Transcaucasian Iberia and he explains the etymology of Chorezm as Hurri-Land. The first two names of rulers we have for the area are Sijavus c.1300BC (?synonymous with Afrasiab c.1100 BC) and Aurvat-Aspa usually placed in the late 600s BC though dating is very difficult. Classical times When the king of Khwarezmia offered friendship to Alexander the Great in 328 BC, Alexander's Greek and Roman biographers imagined.
King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) - a British grammar school located in the town of Chelmsford, roughly in the middle of the county of Essex. It takes boys from the ages of 11 ("Year 7") to 18 ("Year 13"), although it becomes mixed in the sixth form ("Year 12" and "Year 13"). It was one of many grammar schools founded by King Edward VI, and its origin resulted from a royal warrant dated March 24, 1551[1]. The school was moved to its present site in Broomfield Road in 1892[1]. Anthony Tuckwell, headmaster of KEGS from 1984 to 1999, is the author of a history of the school, entitled, 'That honourable and gentlemanlike House', a history of King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, 1551-2001. As of 2003, the present headmaster is Dr. Michael Walker, who succeeded Mr. Tuckwell.
Kingdom of Cyprus - Cyprus was a Roman Catholic Crusader kingdom on the island of Cyprus in the late Middle Ages. The island was conquered from Isaac Comnenus, a rival Byzantine emperor, in 1191 by King Richard I of England during the Third Crusade. Richard then sold it to the Knights Templar, who in turn sold it to King Guy of Jerusalem in 1192 after the failure of Richard's crusade. A small minority Roman Catholic population of the island was mainly confined to the coastal cities, such as Nicosia and Famagusta but remained in control, while the Greek inhabitants lived in the countryside; this was much the same as the arrangement in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The independent Eastern Orthodox Church of Cyprus, with its own archbishop and subject to no patriarch, was allowed to.
Kingdom of Romania - article is part of the History of Romania series. Dacia Romania in the Middle Ages National awakening of Romania Kingdom of Romania Romania during World War II Communist Romania Romania since 1989 From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a "personal union" of two principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. After the defeat of the great empires of Central and Eastern Europe in World War I, "Greater Romania" added Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina. However, "Greater Romania" was not to survive World War II. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Unification and monarchy 1.1 Timeline 2 The interbellum years 2.2 Timeline Unification and monarchy The 1859 ascendancy of Alexander John Cuza as prince of both Moldavia and Wallachia under the nominal suzerainty of.
Kincardineshire - Aberdeenshire on the north and west, and by Angus on the south. The county town was originally the town of Kincardine. However that town ceased to exist during the Middle ages. The only visible sign of its previous existence is the ruin of Kincardine Castle. In modern times the county town is Stonehaven. The county is no longer an administrative unit. It was subsumed within Grampian region as Kincardine district in 1975. When the Grampian region was broken up into unitary authorities more recently, it was absorbed into the unitary authority of Aberdeenshire..
Knight - or German knecht, or servant, the ideas of knighthood are arguably more closely tied to the Roman equites. During the middle ages, the term knight referred to a mounted and armoured soldier. Originally, knights were warriors on horse-back, but the title became increasingly connected to nobility and social status, most likely because of the cost of equipping oneself in the cavalry. Knighthood eventually became a formal title bestowed on those noblemen trained for active war duty. In theory, knighthood could be bestowed on a man by any knight, but it was generally considered honorable to be dubbed knight by the hand of a monarch. By about the late 13th century, partly in conjunction with the focus on courtly behavior, a code of conduct and uniformity of dress for knights began to.
Knaanic language - language spoken in what is now the Czech Republic. It became extinct in late Middle Ages. The name Knaanic applied mainly to Judeo Czech, but also to other Judeo-Slavic languages..
Knowledge - still not free of uncertainty, as errors of observation or interpretation may occur, and any sense can be deceived by illusions. Inferential knowledge is based on reasoning from facts or from other inferential knowledge such as a theory. Such knowledge may or may not be verifiable by observation or testing. For example, all knowledge of the atom is inferential knowledge. The distinction between factual knowledge and inferential knowledge has been explored by the discipline of general semantics. Roger Bacon, an English alchemist and philosopher of the high middle ages, had this to say about knowledge: "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire knowledge of things - authority, reasoning, and experience - only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." Thus knowledge might.
Knaresborough - Guy Fawkes once lived in the town, and Richard II was imprisoned there. Sights in the town include remains of Knaresborough Castle, a petrifying well and several cave dwellings, one a chapel, dating from the Middle Ages. Knaresborough is also the site of the oldest chemist shop in England, started in 1720..
Vegetius - used with great caution, but is none the less invaluable to the student of the ancient art of war. The first book is a plea for army reform, and vividly portrays the military decadence of the empire. The third contains a series of military maxims which were (rightly enough, considering the similarity in the military conditions of the two ages) the foundation of military learning, for every European commander, from William the Silent to Frederick the Great. When the French Revolution and the "nation in arms" came into history, we hear little more of Vegetius. Some of the maxims may be mentioned here as illustrating the principles of a war for limited political objects with which he deals: "All that is advantageous to the enemy is disadvantageous to you, and all.
Konstanz - fantastic, and made breathtaking by the usual early summer morning mist. You should be able to cover most of the sights and attractions in around a week, but save some time for excursions to nearby places like Reichenau Island, Mainau Island, Meersburg, Schaffhausen or Sankt Gallen. The touristic sights in Konstanz are mostly buildings and monuments of historical interest. Konstanz was the home of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. There is a monument to him in the park by the harbour, and his former home is now an upperclass hotel and restaurant. Another more recent monument at the harbour shows a woman holding two man on her arms. It is called Imperia and represents a famous courtisane who lived in Konstanz during the time of the Council of Constance, and the two.
Kol Nidre - text, "which we have vowed," "have sworn," etc., to imperfects. Whether the old text was already too deeply rooted, or whether Rabbenu Tam did not correct these verbal forms consistently and grammatically, the old perfects are still retained at the beginning of the formula, although a future meaning is given to them. The alteration made by Meïr ben Samuel, which agreed with Isaac ibn Ghayyat's view was accepted in the German, northern French, and Polish rituals and in those dependent on them, but not in the Spanish, Roman, and Provençal rituals. The old version is, therefore, usually called the "Sephardic." The old and the new versions are sometimes found side by side. Language In the Siddur of Amram and in the Roman Mahzor the Kol Nidre is written in Hebrew, and.
Korean Buddhism - by Silla in the southeast. During the second half of the fourth century, the Goguryeo king Sosurim (r. 371-383) began to develop close ties with the former Qin, ruled at the time by Fujian (r. 357-384), and these ties further contributed to the reception of culture into the Korean peninsula. The official date for the introduction of Buddhism into Goguryeo is 372, with the dispatch of the monk Sundo (Ch. Shundao) by Fujian to the court of Sosurim with scriptures and Buddhist images. Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant'a (Mālānanda) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin. Due to Silla's relatively isolated geographical location, the official date for its reception of Buddhism was a bit later, most likely during the fifth century. But since there is evidence that the.
Krajina - is mostly associated with the Military Frontier (Militär Gränze) which acted as the Austrian cordon sanitaire against the Turks in the Middle Ages. The border areas were divided into the following military districts: Banat Krajina Slavonian Krajina Croatian Krajina Due to the constant border wars, the area became rather depopulated, and the authorities encouraged immigration of various peoples. The majority of settlers were Serbs and Vlachs who came from territories in the southeast, fleeing the Turk occupation. Germans and Magyars mostly came as administrative personnel, and there was a number of other settlers and military persons from other parts of Austria-Hungary such as the Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians/Ruthenes and others. During the 1990s, the parts of the Krajina which were found on the territory of the former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia organized.
Kulmerland - Drwęca (German Drewenz) river to Chelmno. Where the Vistula river takes a sharp turn northward, the Drwęca forms the eastern border of the region, while its southern and western border is the Vistula river. In the Middle Ages the region was a part of Masovia, being subject to constant raids of the pagan Prussians. To protect his land from invasions, duke Conrad I of Masovia called upon the Teutonic Knights for help. They were to keep the Culmland as a fief in exchange for protecting Mazovia from pagan Prussians, though some allege the grant to be a forgery. The Teutonic Order obtained a Papal bull and an Imperial bull of the Emperor Frederick II before entering Prussia. In 1243 Prussia was divided by the papal legate William of Modena into four.
Küsnacht - located on the commons. It was called fundus Cossiniacus which is probably the origin of the name of Küsnacht. In the 7th century the name was recorded as Chussenacho. The coat of arms shows a golden cushion on a red background. It is probably a derivate of the coat of arms of the aristocrats of Küssnacht am Rigi. In the middle ages, the land was governed by the people of Regensburg who lived in the castle of Wulp in Küsnacht. After 1531 Küsnacht was governed by Zürich. Like all other places along the lake of Zürich, Küsnacht started to become a suburb of Zürich with the development of the railway link in 1896..
Kuzari - the oral tradition, the Talmud. Judah ha-Levi shows that there is no means of carrying out the precepts without having recourse to oral tradition; and that such tradition has always existed may be inferred from many passages of the Bible, the very reading of which is dependent upon it, since there were no vowels and accents in the original text. Names of God The fourth essay opens with an analysis of the various names of God found in the Bible. According to Judah, all these names, with the exception of the Tetragrammaton, are attributes expressing the various states of God's activity in the world. The multiplicity of names no more implies a multiplicity in His essence than do the multifarious influences of the rays of the sun on various bodies imply.
