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Escorial
History; World history

Monastery and palace of Philip II of Spain, located outside Madrid. Construction began in 1563.

Eshnunna
History; World history

City on the Diyali river in central Mesopotamia and an important city-state of the Early Dynastic period. It was conquered by the Akkadians (c.2250 BC) and later ruled by the ...

Essenes
History; World history

The smallest of the three Jewish sects of the last centuries BC, who lived a communal life apart from the rest of society. Their main center was probably at Qumran, where the Dead ...

Estates-General
History; World history

An assembly of provincial representatives called by the French king to approve taxes. It had three houses: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third ...

Etruscans
History; World history

The leading pre-Roman people of Italy, located between the Tiber and Arno rivers, with offshoots in the Po valley and Campania. Recognizable in the early Iron Age Villanovan ...

Dur-Kurigalzu
History; World history

City in south Mesopotamia near to the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, founded in the 14th century BC by a Kassite king of Babylon, Kurigalzu I or Kurigalzu II. The ...

Dura Europos
History; World history

An ancient Mesopotamian city founded in about 300 BC by a Seleucid general. In the late 2nd century BC the city was taken by the Parthians and became a center for trade between ...

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