Biography Category
d. 316 B.C., wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great. She did not get on well with Philip, who had other wives, but the story t...
( ´l , ´l ) (KEY) , island (1985 est. pop. 3,900), 240 sq mi (622 sq km), Argyll and Bute, W central Scotland, southernmost of the Inner Hebrides. ...
former federation of the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the kingdom of Ethiopia. The federation was formed (1936) to consolida...
( z dôr´ s, m l ´t s) (KEY) , name of two architects of the time of Justinian. The elder was associated with Anthemius of Tralles in rebuilding Hag...
writings in the Italian language, as distinct from earlier works in Latin and French.
The Thirteenth Century
The first Italian vernacular literature...
( stä´k r) (KEY) , old town, S Iran. Built largely from the ruins of ancient Persepolis, 3 mi (4.8 km) away, it was a capital of the Sassanid dynast...