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- | successor =Peter II of Portugal | suc-type =Heirbrother ... Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- to 384. Possibly born in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire ... Damasus I was raised in the service of the church of the martyr St ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 00:16, 24 June 2022
- official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death ... a treaty with the Muslims after the battle of Alarcos. Representations of ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... Portugal, desperate to reestablish trade with India after Islam had ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...15 KB (2,289 words) - 07:29, 18 November 2022
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... Church to reform by launching Vatican II and abolishing some antiquated ...21 KB (3,310 words) - 08:07, 3 August 2022
- against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- the twentieth century. The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... by human activity. The resident population of Fernando de Noronha is less ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 00:57, 3 November 2023
- Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- 1934. In 1939, Time magazine called her one of the two most influential women ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 09:39, 15 January 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom ... Within his own community, the Oba is symbolic of a long cultural and ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... in 1974 after it became known that one of his closest aides had been ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the Popes of the Renaissance ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- The Portuguese Colonial War, also known as the Overseas War in Portugal ... colonial forces and agreed a quick handover of power for the nationalistic ...54 KB (8,315 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
