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Avignon papacy
History; World history

Period when the papal court resided at Avignon in southeast France (1309-77). The papacy, already under French influence, moved to Avignon to avoid the civil unrest raging in ...

Avebury henge
History; World history

Late Neolithic enclosure in southern Britain, built in about 2800-2500 BC. It consists of a massive circular embankment, about 425 meters (1,394 feet) in diameter with an interior ...

Avars
History; World history

Nomadic people from the eastern Asiatic steppes who were driven westward in the mid-6th century AD. By 600 they had established a khanate based on the Great Hungarian Plain and ...

Avanti
History; World history

Ancient kingdom (mahajanapadas) of west-central India. In about 600 BC its capital was at Mahismati (later moved to Ujjain). It was a major regional power until it was conquered ...

Ava
History; World history

City of central Burma (Myanmar), also applied to the whole region by Europeans. Established by the Shans in 1364, it was destroyed in civil war in 1527. It served again as the ...

Authoritarianism
History; World history

System of government in which national traditions are rigidly enforced. Modern examples are Francisco Franco's regime in Spain (1939-1975), and the fascist regimes of Adolf Hitler ...

Austronesian
History; World history

Cultural group of southeast Asia based on the Austronesian language group that originated in Taiwan before 2000 BC. It spread through the Indonesian and Malayan archipelagoes and ...

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