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The role of the Comptroller in Scotland was outlined in a French text of 1559, the Discours Particulier D'Escosse. He was receiver general of the royal estates or property, the crown lands. He would appoint receivers for the rents of regions. The Comptroller was the general collector of customs and levies for trade in ports and burghs.
2 days ago · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
2 days ago · Circassia [b] ( / sɜːrˈkæʃə / sir-KASH-ə ), also known as Zichia, [8] [9] was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus. Located along the northeastern shore of the Black Sea, [10] [11] it was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Russo-Circassian War (1763–1864), after which approximately 90% of the Circassian ...
- 82,000 km² (32,000 sq mi)
- Union of Regional Councils
- No official currency. Ottoman coins served as de facto currency
- Circassian languages
Apr 18, 2024 · In telling the story of the greatest engineering puzzle of the Renaissance and one of the world's architectural marvels, Ross King brings its creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance. Call Number: NA5621.F7K56 2000. ISBN: 9780802713667. Publication Date: 2000.
- Dave Horalek
- 2012
Apr 5, 2024 · The idea that Europeans “discovered” America in 1492 has been a basic assumption of American history, but it would be more accurate to say that Columbus's voyages led to the “first permanent arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.”. Millions of people and dozens of cultures thrived in this half of the globe long before Europeans ...
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Apr 15, 2024 · Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Comprehensive original essays that target key individuals and “often overlooked secondary figures” of the American Enlightenment such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, and Jonathan Edwards. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1896.
