In ancient Greece, the term ecumene (U.S.) or oecumene (UK; from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world') denoted the known, inhabited...
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A printed map from the 15th century depicting Ptolemy's description of the Ecumene by Johannes Schnitzer (1482)....
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those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world). The earliest mention of the term is found in the works...
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writers, this was most of the world then known to the ancient Greeks (the 'Ecumene'). An approximate view of the world known to Alexander can be seen in Hecataeus...
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and Indus-related artifacts were found over a large and differentiated ecumene, encompassing Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau, Mesopotamia and the northern...
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AD, including the expansion of Hellenism, the closure of the Eurasian ecumene, the development of major religions, the barbarian onslaught, resurgence...
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metropolis: Changes in the cultural geography of Berlin since reunification". Ecumene. 6 (3): 284–294. doi:10.1191/096746099701556286. Grésillon, B (April 1999)...
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Ancient Rome portal Ancient geography Classical antiquity Early world maps Ecumene Geography History of cartography History of the Mediterranean region Latin...
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landmass on Earth. The following terms are used for similar concepts: Ecumene: a term from classical antiquity for the world as was known to ancient...
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A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second...
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in Italy and South America. That includes as well a close watch on the ecumene, with the Waldensian-influenced theologians being more doubtful about a...
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contained Ptolemy's world map – the world then known to Western society (Ecumene). As early as the 8th century, Arab scholars were translating the works...
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worldwide. The term ecumenical in the title is a historical reference to the Ecumene, a Greek designation for the civilised world, i.e. the Roman Empire, and...
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to be linked to the control of reproduction. In the present scholarly ecumene, this aligns them in some respects with scholars who are traditional and...
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differ from one world historian to another and include world-system and ecumene. His emphasis on cultural fusions influenced historical theory significantly...
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can afford to acquire status symbols within the world of the colonial ecumene, such as an education abroad and mastery of the language of the colonizer...
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grammarians and also affirmed the linguistic unity of the north Indian ecumene. What emerged was a kind of register of language types that were appropriate...
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history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene," Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation...
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ISBN 9780810873803. Buchanan, Donna (2007). Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse. London: Scarecrow Press...
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[Collected Works in Six Volumes: Road of the Winds; On the edge of the ecumene.] (in Russian). p. 751. Davis, Lauren (2009-07-28). "The Hunt for the Mongolian...
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Traditions of Agroecology: Crosscultural Experience, Ideas and Innovations". Ecumene. 1 (1): 26. doi:10.1177/147447409400100102. ISSN 0967-4608. S2CID 145363850...
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conception of an "inhabited quarter" of the world comparable to the Greek ecumene. The attitudes towards the Age of Discovery within the Ottoman Empire ranged...
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other works also take place in this same setting. Arcology Conurbation Ecumene Ekistics Megacity Megalopolis Megastructure Merger (politics) Metropolis...
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held by Byzantine Emperors on the one hand to represent the Christian ecumene, on the other hand the akakia represented the mortal nature of all men...
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No 25, Theme Burmese Heritage Frasch, Tilman. "The Theravaada Buddhist Ecumene in the Fifteenth Century: Intellectual Foundations and Material Representations"...
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showing the known world from the perspective of various historical periods Ecumene, a Greek geographical concept for the inhabited or known parts of the world...
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shape of the Earth and the fifteenth-century transformation of the world". Ecumene. 1 (4): 365 – via JSTOR. Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I, Q....
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recasting of African society and landscape in Serengeti National Park". Ecumene. 2 (2): 149–169. doi:10.1177/147447409500200203. S2CID 145421779. Wanitzek...
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Retrieved 14 April 2023. Yildirim, Riza (2019). "The Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the Formation of the Qizilbash-Alevi Community in the Ottoman Empire...
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Conjunction: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires and the Islamic Ecumene". Shah Jahan. LSE International Studies. Cambridge University Press. 18...
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