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Showing posts with label Antioch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antioch. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2015

History Trivia - Antioch struck by an earthquake

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November 29 526 - Antioch in modern day Syria was struck by an Earthquake, about 250,000 died. 939 Edmund was crowned as king of Eng...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

War limits study of Roman Syrian sites, but one has yielded priceless treasures of the past

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Ancient Origins The war has so disrupted parts of the Near East that scholars have just a few Roman Empire sites to study in what was th...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

History Trivia - Temple of Apollo at Daphne destroyed by fire

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  October 22 362 A mysterious fire destroyed the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.  741 King Charles Martel, the gra...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

History Trivia - Geiseric the Vandal sacks Rome

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June 2 455 Geiseric the Vandal sacked Rome. 597 Saxon King Ethelbert was the first English King to convert to Christianity and bap...
Monday, May 18, 2015

History Trivia - Crusaders abandon Tyre

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May 18, 1096 Crusaders massacred Jews of Worms, Germany. 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, fell to the Mamluk ...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

History Trivia - Edmund crowned king of England

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November 29  526 - Antioch in modern day Syria was struck by an Earthquake, about 250,000 died. 799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles t...
Monday, October 20, 2014

History Trivia - The Greeks defeated the Persians at Salamis

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October 20 480 BC The Greeks defeated the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. It marked th...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

History Trivia - Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars

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May 18 1096 Crusaders massacred Jews of Worms, Germany.  1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, fell to the Mamluk Sult...
Friday, November 29, 2013

History Trivia - Charlemagne enters Rome

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November 29  526 - Antioch in modern day Syria was struck by an Earthquake, about 250,000 died. 7 99 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

History Trivia - The Greeks defeat the Persians at Salamis

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October 20 480 BC The Greeks defeated the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. It marked th...