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    September 2004, a Hellenic Army Aviation CH-47SD crashed into the sea off Mount Athos. All 17 people on board were killed, including four senior figures in the...
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    popularity after they were adopted in the Great Lavra on Mount Athos in the 960s. Monasteries had a deep effect on the local society, in various cases acting...
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  • degrees. A geographically named feature is uniquely identified by a Unique Feature Identifier (UFI), which is a number. A similar UFI denotes a similar...
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    the largest and best-preserved old towns of Europe. Vilnius was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian...
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    to the Seljuks (Bardback). Leuvin: Peeters. pp. 253–276. ISBN 978-9-04292-712-4. Simeonov, Grigori (2016). "Die Brachialion-Anlegestelle". In Daim, Falko...
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    Orthodox clergy had the title of Protos at Mount Athos. On 16 April 1346 (Easter), Stefan Dušan convoked a grand assembly at Skopje, attended by the Serbian...
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    other sources, including Pseudo-Sphrantzes, claim that he became a monk in Mount Athos, where he died. At this time, Venice had no standing fleet. Every...
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    Toledo, Spain (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    developed under the Visigothic nobles, Tariq bin Ziyad captured Toledo in 711 or 712, on behalf of the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, as part of the Islamic conquest...
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    Mérida (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾiða]) is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Province of Badajoz, and capital of the autonomous community...
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    660 pp., ISBN 0-06-080332-0. —— The Gulag Archipelago: Two. Harper & Row. 712 pp., ISBN 0-06-080345-2. Tobien, Karl. 2006. Dancing Under the Red Star:...
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