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    A mount of piety is an institutional pawnbroker run as a charity in Europe from Renaissance times until today. Similar institutions were established in...
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    was founded in its present form in 1624, but traces its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472. The Berenberg company was founded in 1590 and has operated...
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    Filial piety is the virtue of exhibiting love and respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors, particularly within the context of Confucian, Chinese...
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    Banca Carige, founded in 1483 as a mount of piety, which existed until 2022 Threatened by Alfonso V of Aragon, the Doge of Genoa in 1458 handed the Republic...
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  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (category Mounts of piety)
    known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 (552 years ago) and established in its present form...
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    Banca in February 2022. The predecessor of the bank, a mount of piety, was founded in 1483 in Genoa, the Republic of Genoa. Banca Carige and its subsidiaries...
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    Banco di Napoli (category Defunct banks of Italy)
    public benches of charitable institutions, which arose in Naples between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially at a mount of piety founded in...
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    ("Saint Catherine of the Mount of Piety") was a Catholic church in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani. The original church of this name was built in 1518...
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    Genoa (redirect from Flag of Genoa)
    as a mount of piety, which still exists. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa c. 1451, and donated one-tenth of his income from the discovery of the...
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  • Unicaja (category Banks of Spain)
    Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera after the names of all the merged entities and the mount of piety structure. It is similar to what would be called a...
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