| De architectura ''architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods as well as the planning and design of structures, both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. De_architectura
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| Tabula Peutingeriana Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger table) is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map of which this is a unique copy was last revised in the fourth or early fifth century. It covers Europe, parts of Asia (Persia, India) and North Africa. The map is named after Konrad Peutinger, a German 15–16th-century humanist and antiquarian. Tabula_Peutingeriana
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| Leodegar Saint Leodegar or Leger, Bishop of Autun (c. 615 October 2, 679), was the great opponent of Ebroin—Neustria—Austrasian great nobles in the struggles for hegemony over the waning Merovingian dynasty. His torture and death made him a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, which embraced the cause of the Austrasian mayors of the palace, the Arnulfings, in the following century, anointed as the Carolingian dynasty. Leodegar
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| Süßkind von Trimberg Süßkind von Trimberg or Susskind of Trimberg (c. 1230 German minnesinger, and, in all probability, the first documented Jewish poet of the German language. He is called a Jew three times in the manuscript (which was completed around 1330) and is painted with a Judenhut (the hat Jews were forced to wear by law in the latter Middle Ages). Süßkind_von_Trimberg
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| Callinicus (exarch) Callinicus or Kallinikos (Καλλίνικος in Greek) was the exarch of Ravenna (597 Gallicinus by some historians because the great Lombard historian Paul the Deacon calls him Gallicini patricii ( Latin text, English patrician Gallicinus). The first few years of his administration were marked by relatively good fortune. Callinicus_(exarch)
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| Maria Anna Thekla Mozart Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (September 25, 1758 January 25, 1841), called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), was the cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was born in Augsburg, Germany, the third (and only surviving one) of five daughters of Franz Alois Mozart, a younger brother of Leopold Mozart and Maria Victoria Eschenbach. Between October 11 and October 26, 1777, 19-year-old Marianne met the 21-year-old Mozart in Augsburg. The young people developed a close, probably intimate relationship. Maria_Anna_Thekla_Mozart
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| Ava (poet) The poetess Ava (c. 10607 February 1127), also known as Frau Ava, Ava of Göttweig or Ava of Melk, was the first named female writer in any genre in the German language. Ava_(poet)
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| Merseburg Incantations The Merseburg Incantations () are two medieval magic spells, charms or incantations, written in Old High German. They are the only known examples of Germanic pagan belief preserved in this language. They were discovered in 1841 by Georg Waitz, who found them in a theological manuscript from Fulda, written in the 9th or 10th century, although there remains some speculation about the date of the charms themselves. Merseburg_Incantations
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| Legio I Maximiana Legio_I_Maximiana
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| Legio I Maximiana Talk:Legio_I_Maximiana
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| Thomas of Britain Thomas of Britain was a poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem Tristan, a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of verse, mostly from the latter part of the story. Thomas_of_Britain
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| Veronese Riddle Veronese Riddle is a riddle, apparently half-Italian, half-Latin, written on the margin of a parchment, probably in the early 9th century, by a Catholic monk from Verona, a city in the Veneto region, in Northern Italy. It was a very popular riddle in the Middle Ages and has survived into dialects to date. Discovered by Schiapparelli in 1924 it was considered for a long time the first document ever written in the Italian language. Veronese_Riddle
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| Heinrich Wittenwiler Heinrich Wittenwiler was a late medieval Alemannic poet (lived roughly 1370 The Ring (ca. 1410). He may be identical to an advocate to the bishop of Konstanz, mentioned in 1395. Heinrich may be of the family of the former rulers of Wittenwil in the Thurgau, who became destitute and abandoned their castle in 1339. Throughout the early 15th century, most bearers of the name lived in the Toggenburg, probably including one of the scribes of the Cgm 558. Heinrich_Wittenwiler
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| Rufus Pudens Pudentianna Talk:Rufus_Pudens_Pudentianna
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| Der von Kürenberg Der von Kürenberg or Der Kürenberger (Kuerenberg, Kuerenberger, fl. mid-12th century) was an Austrian poet, and one of the first named poets to write in German.He was an Austrian nobleman possibly from the area around Linz. Some of the 14 stanzas that appear in Minnesangsfrühling group themselves into poems. Der_von_Kürenberg
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| Ancient Greek phonology Ancient Greek phonology is the study of the phonology, or pronunciation, of Ancient Greek. Because of the passage of time, the original pronunciation of Ancient Greek, like that of all ancient languages, can never be known with absolute certainty. Linguistic reconstructions have been widely debated in the past; however, a good approximation can be established and there is now a consensus in scholarship. Ancient_Greek_phonology
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| Ancient Greek phonology/Archive 1 Talk:Ancient_Greek_phonology/Archive_1
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| Ulrich von Zatzikhoven Ulrich von Zatzikhoven was the author of the Middle High German Arthurian romance Lanzelet.Ulrich's name and his place of origin (Zezikon in Switzerland) are only known definitively from the work itself. However, it is generally accepted that Ulrich is the same person as a lay priest ("Leutpriester") from Lommis in the canton of Thurgau by the name of Uolricus de Cecinchoven, who occurs as a witness to a deed of gift dated March 29, 1214, executed by the family of the Counts of Toggenburg in favor of the monastery of St. Ulrich_von_Zatzikhoven
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| Ruodlieb Ruodlieb is a romance in Latin verse by an unknown German poet who flourished about 1030. He was almost certainly a monk of the Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee. The poem is one of the earliest German romances of knightly adventure, and its vivid picture of feudal manners gives it a certain value as a historical document. Ruodlieb
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