• existence of a pretended plot against the royal family. Portus died in Geneva on 5 June 1581. Portus corrected and annotated the texts of many Ancient Greek...
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    Seychelles. It is under the Diocese of Port Victoria or Seychelles (Dioecesis Portus Victoriae or seychellarum). The first church dates back to 1888, but the...
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  • theologian and bishop Franciscus Duarenus (François Douaren; 1509–1559), French jurist and professor of law Franciscus Portus (Φραγκίσκος Πόρτος; 1511–1581), Greek-Italian...
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    Nantes (redirect from Portus Namnetum)
    was introduced at the end of the Roman period, when it became known as Portus Namnetum "port of the Namnetes" and civitas Namnetum 'city of the Namnetes'...
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  • Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel (Portu-au-Prince, 1906 – June 28, 1986) was a Haitian feminist journalist and co-founder of Haiti's first feminist organization, the...
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  • Google Books Compte rendu de la ... session, etc. Restauration prochaine de Portus Magnus et Abri Alain The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael...
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    of the Abbey of Saint-Denis: the name was recorded in Medieval Latin as Portus de Lulliaco, meaning "Port of Lulliacum". In 1224 another charter of Saint-Denis...
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  • Catholic University of America Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8132-0623-3. Javier Portús (2004). The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso. Scala. p. 337....
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    "Delavigne, Jean François Casimir" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 946. "Ancelot, Jacques Arsène François Polycarpe" . Encyclopædia...
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  • Theodore also ordered Formosus' body to be recovered from the harbour of Portus, where it had been secretly buried, and restored to the original grave at...
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    Venice, anthologist, mathematician, grammarian, theologian Franciscus Portus (1511–1581), Venice, Ferrara, Geneva John Servopoulos (fl. 1484–1500), scholar...
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    by a statue of François Grimaldi in the precincts of the palace (Illustration 6) and in the arms of the House of Grimaldi where François is depicted wielding...
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    the Celtic Boii. In the past, it was sometimes conflated with Caesar's Portus Itius, but that is now thought to have been a site near Calais which has...
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    Achæi" and an "island of Achilles", famous for the tomb of that "man" (portus Achaeorum, insula Achillis, tumulo eius viri clara), situated somewhat nearby...
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    The commentator Servius's use of the passage asserts, under the entry portus, that the epithet was derived: either because Hercules drove off everyone...
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    indicate that the prophecy was written based on that source. In 1694, Claude-François Menestrier argued the additional interpretive statements were not written...
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    this lower market (Latin: forum inferius) not far from the port (Latin: portus) on the Senne. It was called the Nedermerckt (meaning "Lower Market" in...
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    language. The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and Alain Bernardini both born in the village of Tagliu-Isulacciu...
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  • (2019–24) Sven Botman (2020–22) Leny Yoro (2022–24) Jules Bigot (1944–50) François Bourbotte (1944–47) Roger Carré [fr] (1944–50) Albert Dubreucq [fr] (1945–53)...
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    to guard Portus with orders not to leave the city under any circumstances. Now Belisarius heard he had been captured and rushed back to Portus. Isaac had...
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    the exact distance to 'Portus' and is the first documented evidence of the settlement. 259/260: The Roman settlement 'Portus' was destroyed completely...
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    the 12th century when Saxo Grammaticus in Gesta Danorum referred to it as Portus Mercatorum, meaning 'Merchants' Harbour' or, in the Danish of the time,...
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  • The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-de-Paix (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Pacis), erected 3 October 1861, is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien. Paul-Marie...
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    "Discovering the Portus Magnus of Alexandria". Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2022. "The Portus Magnus of Alexandria:...
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    Tingitana. Pliny mentions it as a native hillfort and port (Latin: oppidum et portus). It was made a Roman colony in AD 46, after which it was sometimes referenced...
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  • Christmas Carols Machajdík, Peter (1961) On the Seven Colours of Light (2007) Portus Pacis (2016) De humilitate (2018) Zem (2018) Da perenne gaudium (2021) Magle...
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  • augmentative lęch. From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale (modern Porto and Gaia). Portus is the Latin for "port", but the meaning of Cale is debated...
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    moles, warehouses and lighthouses at ports such as Civitavecchia, Ostia, Portus, Leptis Magna and Caesarea Maritima. At Rome itself, Monte Testaccio is...
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  • sea-side resort and home to a casino. Le Tréport (the ancient Ulterior Portus) was a port of some note in the Middle Ages, when it experienced several...
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    Silicon Valley. Jacques Bergerac, actor, and business executive with Revlon. François Cabarrus, adventurer and Spanish financier. Cristina Garmendia José Ignacio...
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