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121Ordre du Croissant — For the Ottoman Order of the Crescent, see Order of the Crescent. The Ordre du Croissant (Order of the Crescent; Italian Ordine della Luna Crescente) was a chivalric order founded by Charles I of Naples and Sicily in 1268. It was revived in 1448… …
122Falquet de Romans — Falquet (or Folquet) de Romans [Falquet always appears in Latin documents as Falquetus de Rotmanis and his Occitan name is sometimes spelled Falqet , Falqetz , or Falkez and Rotmans or Roman . His Italian name is Falchetto di Romans .] (fl. 1215… …
123Liste des souverains de Milan — La seigneurie de Milan se constitue au XIIIe siècle dans la famille Visconti, qui la conserve et l agrandit pendant tout le cours du XIVe siècle au point de se faire concéder le titre ducal par l Empereur en 1395. Elle le conserve jusqu …
124Бургундия (герцогство) — Герцогство Бургундия …
125Don Quixote — /don kee hoh tee, don kwik seuht/; Sp. /dawn kee haw te/ 1. the hero of a novel by Cervantes who was inspired by lofty and chivalrous but impractical ideals. 2. (italics) (Don Quixote de la Mancha) the novel itself (1605 and 1615). * * * ▪… …
126freemasonry — /free may seuhn ree/, n. 1. secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge. 2. (cap.) the principles, practices, and institutions of Freemasons. [1400 50; late ME fremasonry …
127golden age — 1. the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc. 2. Class. Myth. the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age. 3. (usually caps.) a period in… …
128Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
