WebThe history of banking began with the first prototype banks, that is, the merchants of the world, who gave grain loans to farmers and traders who carried goods between cities. This was around 2000 BCE in Assyria, India and Sumeria.Later, in ancient Greece and during the Roman Empire, lenders based in temples gave loans, while accepting deposits and …

WebIn China, Fengdu has a long history in the Taoist tradition of being a portal to hell. In Derweze, Turkmenistan, a burning natural gas fire in the middle of the Karakum Desert is known as the Door to Hell or Darvaza gas crater.; According to Hawaiian folklore, Waipio Valley contains an entrance to the lower world, Lua-o-Milu, which is now concealed with …

WebRoman Italy (called Italia in both the Latin and Italian languages referring to the Italian Peninsula) was the homeland of the Romans and metropole of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in classical antiquity. According to Roman mythology, Italy was the ancestral home promised by Jupiter to Aeneas of Troy and his descendants, who were the …

WebThe Cantigas de Santa Maria (Galician: [kanˈtiɣɐz ðɪ ˈsantɐ maˈɾi.ɐ], Portuguese: [kɐ̃ˈtiɣɐʒ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ mɐˈɾi.ɐ]; "Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile El Sabio (1221–1284). Traditionally, they are all attributed to Alfonso, though scholars have ...

WebA wilderness guide leads paid parties through back country areas that may variously include land, water bodies, and high country — but not so high and technical as to require the skills of a mountain guide.Wilderness guides in the United States are historically and romantically particularly associated with the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where they first …

WebThe Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an otherwise unknown writing system, referred to as 'Voynichese'. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and stylistic analysis indicates it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The origins, authorship, and …

WebLucca (/ ˈ l uː k ə / LOO-kə, Italian: ()) is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one of the Italian's "Città d'arte" (Arts town), thanks to its intact Renaissance-era city walls and its …

WebName. The name "Two Sicilies" originated from the partition of the medieval Kingdom of Sicily.Until 1285, the island of Sicily and the Mezzogiorno were constituent parts of the Kingdom of Sicily. As a result of the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302), the King of Sicily lost the Island of Sicily (also called Trinacria) to the Crown of Aragon, but remained …

WebFrom its unification in 1861 to the Italian economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, Italy has been a country of mass emigration. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year. As a consequence, large numbers of people with full or significant Italian ancestry are found in Brazil (25 million), …

WebNobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.It is normally ranked immediately below royalty.Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristics associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles or simply formal functions …

WebSirmione (Brescian: Sirmiù; Venetian: Sirmion) is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy).It is bounded by Desenzano del Garda and Peschiera del Garda in the province of Verona and the region of Veneto.It has a historical centre which is located on the Sirmio peninsula that divides the lower part of Lake Garda

WebAscoli Piceno (Italian: [ˈaskoli piˈtʃɛːno] (); Latin: Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and comune in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name.Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the …

WebMedieval demography is the study of human demography in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages. It estimates and seeks to explain the number of people who were alive during the Medieval period, population trends, life expectancy, family structure, and related issues. ... Italy – Italy’s population around 1300 has been variously ...

WebCondottieri (Italian: [kondotˈtjɛːri]; singular condottiero or condottiere) were Italian captains in command of mercenary companies during the Middle Ages and of multinational armies during the early modern period.They notably served popes and other European monarchs during the Italian Wars of the Renaissance and the European Wars of Religion.Notable …