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Hace 15 horas · The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición ), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( Inquisición española ), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It began toward the end of the Reconquista and was ...
Hace 15 horas · Seville (/ s ə ˈ v ɪ l / sə-VIL; Spanish: Sevilla, pronounced ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.. Seville has a municipal population of about 701,000 as of 2022, and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 ...
Hace 15 horas · e. Marcus Tullius Cicero[ a] ( / ˈsɪsəroʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, [ 4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman ...
Hace 15 horas · Haredi Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות חֲרֵדִית, romanized: Yahadut Ḥaredit, IPA:) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict interpretation of religious sources and its accepted halakha (Jewish law) and traditions, in opposition to more accommodating or modern values and practices. Its members are usually referred to as ultra-Orthodox in English; a term ...
Hace 15 horas · Zoroastrianism ( Persian: دین زرتشتی, romanized : Din-e Zartoshti ), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion. Among the world's oldest organized faiths, it is based on the teachings of Iranian prophet Zarathustra—commonly known by his Greek name Zoroaster —as set forth in the primary religious text called the ...
Hace 15 horas · The origins of the Ordnance Survey lie in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Prince William, Duke of Cumberland realised that the British Army did not have a good map of the Scottish Highlands to locate Jacobite dissenters such as Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat so that they could be put on trial. [3] In 1747, Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson proposed the compilation of a map of the ...
Hace 15 horas · Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino [4] CCLH (Tagalog: [kɔɾaˈsɔn kɔˈhwaŋkɔ aˈkino]; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the eleventh President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the ...
