• Conquest of Insula II is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) fantasy wargame. Conquest of Insula II was a computer moderated play-by-mail...
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  • Capsule-like review of Universe II, Terra II, and Conquest of Insula II. McLain, Bob (November–December 1983). "Gamealog: Universe II". PBM Universal. No...
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    Island, White Island, Island of Achilles or Zmiinyi Island (Ukrainian: острів Змії́ний, romanized: ostriv Zmiinyi; Romanian: Insula Șerpilor), is a Ukrainian...
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  • Publishing, ECI, LAMA, Palace Simulations, and Star Dragon of the United States; The First Conquest, DMC Games, Golden Sherd Games, Harrow Postal Games, Historical...
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    Insula Manniae - Vol 2'". Isle-of-man.com. Retrieved 2 November 2021. "pp215/219 Manx Soc vol 7 'Monumenta de Insula Manniae - Vol 2 - Concession of the...
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    Conquistador (category History of indigenous peoples of the Americas)
    1521, Hernán Cortés led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, ruled by Moctezuma II. From the territories of the Aztec Empire, conquistadors expanded...
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    Emmanuel II National Monument (Italian: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as the Vittoriano or Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland")...
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    Catullus also used the plural Britanniae in his Carmina. Avienius used insula Albionum in his Ora Maritima. Orosius used the plural Britanniae to refer...
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    people of Britain the Pretanoí or Bretanoí. Pliny's Natural History (77 AD) says the older name for the island was Albion, and Avienius calls it insula Albionum...
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    (hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, "Island of the Batavi"). Much later Tacitus wrote that they had originally been a tribe of the Chatti, a tribe in...
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    de Insula and Avvocato, set sail in July 1097. The Genoese fleet transported and provided naval support to the crusaders, mainly during the siege of Antioch...
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    appears in Latin as 'Insula Sacra'. The reference was to Saints Aidan and Cuthbert. In the present day, Holy Island is the name of the civil parish and...
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    settlements mentioned in medieval texts in the 11th century. The toponymy insula (island) was born in this context. It refers either to the feudal motte...
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    de Insula Manniæ; or, A Collection of National Documents Relating to the Isle of Man. Vol. 2. Douglas, IM: Manx Society. Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry...
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    of Utica was a hieromartyr and Bishop of Utica during the reign of Emperor Valerian. Utica columns Punic Tomb House Insula 1, Archaeological site of Utica...
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  • described as a leader of the Saxon invaders of Britain in the Ravenna Cosmography. This says that "in oceano vero occidentale est insula quae dicitur Britania...
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    Lancelotto Malocello (category Explorers from the Republic of Genoa)
    appeared on a European map of Angelino Dulcert (the Dulcert Atlas) in 1339 under the name "Ínsula de Lançarote Mallucellus" (island of Lancelotto Malocello)...
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    Parisiorum, quod positum est in insula fluminis Sequanae" ("This is a town of the Parisii, situated on an island on the river of the Seine"), indicating that...
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    territories of Northern Dobruja, the Danube Delta and access to the Black Sea including the ancient port of Tomis, as well as the tiny Snake Island (Insula Şerpilor)...
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    Paris map ("Columbus Map") of c. 1500 (La Ronciere, 1924), the inscription by Antillia reads: Hec Septem Civitatum insula vocatur, nunc Portugallensium...
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    square marked off by four roads was called an insula, the Roman equivalent of a modern city block. Each insula was 80 yards (73 m) square, with the land within...
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    rest of the colonia was gridded into around forty blocks known as insula, with paved streets and colonnaded paths between. As well as a system of local...
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    Vetera (category Roman history of modern countries and territories)
    ISBN 978-3-8053-4586-6. Liesen, Bernd; Reuter, Marcus (2009). "Der Keller der mansio in Insula 38 und das Ende der Colonia Ulpia Traiana". In Ristow, Sebastian (ed.)....
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    Bibliothèque nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 1065. Fermes Letter: "Est namque et alia insula in Brisone flumine, ubi nascuntur homines sine capite, habentes oculos et...
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    Osci-Samnites and the Greek colony of Taranto, allied with Pyrrhus, king of Epirus) whose result was the conquest of the Italian peninsula, from the central...
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    Cremona (redirect from History of Cremona)
    of Canossa, together with Lodi, Milan and Piacenza. The conflict ended with Cremona gaining the Insula Fulcheria, the area around the nearby city of Crema...
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    construction. This forum was built on the order of the emperor Trajan with the spoils of war from the conquest of Dacia, which ended in 106. The construction...
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    Pompeii (category Museums of ancient Rome in Italy)
    done in Rome, in terms of wall-heating and window glass, and with well-lit spacious rooms. The new baths took over a whole insula by demolishing houses...
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    the Insula dell'Ara Coeli, dating from the second century AD, which is still visible today on the left side of the Vittoriano. The landscaping of the...
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    Huelva (category Municipalities in the Province of Huelva)
    a statue of the Virgin of el Rocio travels at night from El Rocio to Almonte. Near Huelva, in the Huelva River estuary, lies Herculis Insula, mentioned...
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