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2 days ago · Georgia is a mountainous country situated almost entirely in the South Caucasus, while some slivers of the country are situated north of the Caucasus Watershed in the North Caucasus. [225] [226] The country lies between latitudes 41° and 44° N, and longitudes 40° and 47° E, with an area of 67,900 km 2 (26,216 sq mi).
5 days ago · The Darshapurnamsa, the new and full moon sacrifices; The four seasonal (Cāturmāsya) sacrifices; The Agnicayana, the sophisticated ritual of piling the fire altar; The Pashubandhu, the (semi-)annual animal sacrifice; The Soma rituals, which involved the extraction, utility and consumption of Soma: The Jyotishtoma
3 days ago · The first European settlement was at Rangihoua Bay, the land purchased on 24 February 1815, where the first full-blooded European infant in the territory, Thomas Holloway King, was born on 21 February 1815 at the Oihi Mission Station near Hohi Bay in the Bay of Islands.
5 days ago · e. The Maurya Empire ( Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe [21]) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE, it existed in loose-knit fashion until 185 BCE. [22] The empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain; its capital ...
5 days ago · Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were an Indo-European peoples who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle ...
5 days ago · Al-Majdal, ca 1851, by van de Velde A view of Al-Majdal in 1903 when looking toward the southwest. Al-Majdal (Arabic: المجدل, "tower", also transliterated Majdal, Majdil and Mejdel) was a Palestinian Arab village, located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee (200 meters or 660 feet below sea level; ), 5 km (3 miles) north of Tiberias and south of Khan Minyeh
5 days ago · Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during ...
