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    Heritage Site St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica (Toronto), Canada St. Michael's Cathedral (Izhevsk), Russia St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, China St. Michael's...
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    The heavy helmets worn by Charles Emmanuel's troops, with visors made in a stylized imitation of a human face, were known as "Savoyard" helmets after this...
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    of Mallakastër. The area was on the edge of the sphere of influence by Apollonia and Epidamnos, as well as of Epirus. The foundation of the Illyrian city...
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    Phoenicusa Strongyle Therassía Cyrenaica Balagrae Barca Berenice Cyrene (Apollonia) Ptolemais Iberian Peninsula Akra Leuke Alonis Emporion Helike Hemeroscopion...
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    Victory Stele of Naram-Sin (category Horned helmets)
    piece is that Naram-Sin is shown wearing a bull-horned helmet or shown as the face of lion. Helmets of this type at the time when this stele was commissioned...
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    islands of Issa (Vis) and Corfu, and on the cities of Epidamnos (Durrës), Apollonia (present-day Pojani) and Oricum (Orikum) in the bay of Vlorë. This protectorate...
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    Imperial Palace on YouTube Ancient Sirmium on YouTube The Land of the Golden helmets (In Serbian) Documentary film Roman Sirmium and Panonia (In Serbian) Documentary...
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    Migration: Differentiating Locals and Non-Locals in Tumulus Burials from Apollonia, Albania (Thesis). University of Cincinnati. p. 29. Archived from the...
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    southern Illyria. Placed around the lower Vjosë/Aoos river near ancient Apollonia and present-day Selenica, Albania, the area was occupied by Illyrians...
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    Migration: Differentiating Locals and Non-Locals in Tumulus Burials from Apollonia, Albania (Thesis). University of Cincinnati. Archived from the original...
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    (in 230 B.C.), some Greek colonies in the eastern Adriatic Sea (from Apollonia, to Kerkyra, Epidamnos and Issa), being attacked by the Illyrian pirates...
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  • Painting. Thames and Hudson. p. 35. ISBN 0500181144. "St. Patrick Catholic Church Saint of the Day". St. Patrick Catholic Church. Retrieved March 3, 2012...
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    collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks. The Baroque collection includes...
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    symbols of Italian heritage in Split, including several Venetian Lions of St. Mark, were erased from the town. In a tragic turn of events, besides being...
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    Antalcidas, had a free hand for active action in Greece. The cities of Apollonia and Akanthos, which the Olynthians forced to join the Chalcidian League...
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    prominent port of Apollonia. Admitting that Triport corresponds to Thronion, which was conquered by Apollonia around mid-5th century BC, Apollonia's territory...
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    fact that many authors represented classical heroes with helmets that resembled fireman's helmets). Although in principle the academies were in tune with...
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    of Doriscus with the Aegean coast, as well as with the port-cities of Apollonia, Mesembria and Odessos on the Black Sea, and with the central Thracian...
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    Velletri Pallas is a type of classical marble statue of Athena, wearing a helmet. All statues of this type are 1st century Roman copies of a lost Greek bronze...
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    medicinal herb whose qualities were discovered by Gentius, and the bitumen of Apollonia, which was used to protect vines from parasites and also for veterinary...
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    only by wealthy warriors. Helmets are found more abundantly in Illyrian graves because of their higher status. Bronze helmets were made by the northern...
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  • the meantime, the remainder of the Roman army landed further north at Apollonia. The combined army and navy proceeded northward together. After subduing...
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    (Περίανδρος) who induced his new subjects to join in the colonization of Apollonia and Anactorium. The island soon regained its independence and thenceforth...
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    Ulkinion • • Lissos Scupi • Epidamnos- Dyrrhachion • • Lychnidos Royal • Tombs Apollonia • • Dimale Byllis • Amantia • Orikos • ◂◂◂ Skardon Kandavia ▴▴▴ ▴ Tomaros...
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    at Latin Wikisource. Newman, John Henry & al. Lives of the English Saints: St. German, Bishop of Auxerre, Ch. X: "Britain in 429, A. D.", p. 92. Archived...
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    statues are seen around the city. He has an importance similar to that of St. Mark the Evangelist to Venice. One of the larger churches in the city is...
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    The Black Sea region has also produced examples of Charon's obol. At Apollonia Pontica, the custom had been practiced from the mid-4th century BC; in...
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    modern-day central and northern Albania, where Epidamnus/Dyrrhachium and Apollonia were founded by Greek colonists. The Aous river, traditionally seen as...
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    with ropes. Saracen's crew later hauled naval 18-pounder guns above Fort St. John, the fortress near Kotor, and were reinforced by Captain William Hoste...
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    outside the Chaonian territory. As part of the southward expansion of Apollonia the lower Aoos region came under the control of this polis (during the...
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