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- 2. also known as Vladimir "Albert" and "Didi", a character in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- 7. served as Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus' history.
- 8. Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. ... They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch
- 9. was a Byzantine empress through her marriage to emperor Justinian.
- 10. comes from the Greek eikо̄n, so “icon” simply means image. In the Eastern Roman “Byzantine” Empire and other lands that shared Byzantium's Orthodox Christian faith, “holy icons” were images of sacred figures and events.
- 11. Until the age of 16, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle ; In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- 13. an emperor of Russia before 1917.
- 14. consists of four books: (1) Codex Constitutionum, (2) Digesta, or Pandectae, (3) Institutiones, and (4) Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem.
- 15. also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khagan of the Mongol Empire, ...
- 16. also known as Ivan the Great, was the Grand Prince of Moscow and the Sovereign of all Rus'.
- 19. is closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek.
- 20. Vladimirovich was the Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death.
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- 1. officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya Camii), is a mosque and major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 3. is a 2005 American superhero horror film directed by Francis Lawrence in his directorial debut. Written by Kevin Brodbin
- 4. also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople
- 5. personal name Wu Zhao, was the de facto ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empress consort of the Tang dynasty and then, after his death, empress dowager.
- 6. the male head of a family or tribe.
- 12. the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
- 17. provides a unique software solution to what has traditionally been a hardware problem. Through Machine Learning and AI, Ivani leverages the R
- 18. was the second son of Tolui by his chief wife Sorghaghtani Beki, and a grandson of Genghis Khan. He was almost 12 when Genghis Khan died in 1227.