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    the invitation of Humberto Mauro, she participated in the short film Um Apólogo, alongside Déa Selva and narrated by Lúcia Miguel Pereira. She later became...
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    Utbah ibn Ghazwan to head south to capture al-Ubulla (known as "port of Apologos" in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea) and Basra, in order to cut ties...
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    etymology of apologia (Greek: ἀπολογία) is derived from the root word apologos (ἀπόλογος), "a speech in defense", and the corresponding verb form apologeisthai...
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  • Al-Ubulla (redirect from Apologos)
    Al-Ubulla (Arabic: الأبلة), called Apologou (Greek: 'Απολόγου 'Εμπόριον) by the Greeks in the pre-Islamic period, was a port city at the head of the Persian...
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    Taxilla Persia – Alexandria Areion, Kandahar, Persepolis. Persian Gulf – Apologos, Asabon, Charax, Gerrha (or Gerra), Ommana. Red Sea – Adulis, Aualites...
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  • Iraq was his victory over the Sasanian garrison at Ubulla (the ancient Apologos, near modern Basra) and the nearby village of Khurayba, though al-Tabari...
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    1861. El aderezo de las esmeraldas, 1862. La venta de los gatos, 1862. Apólogo, 1863. Un boceto del natural, 1863. Un lance pesado. Memorias de un pavo...
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    his best in a reasoned but vehement "Memorial to John IV", in the witty "Apologos Dialogaes", and in the homely philosophy of the "Carta de Guia de Casados"...
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    1935 Leibniz e il misticismo, 1938 'Filosofia e scienza', Analysis, 1947 'Apologo', Sigma, 1947 'I'dialoghi di Commodo', Sigma, 1949 'Critica filosofia e...
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    met Juan Luis Vives. In 1546 he published a collection of three works, Apólogo de la ociosidad y el trabajo by Luis Mejia, Introducción y camino de la...
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