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| | Rurik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Some historians claim that there are folklore roots of the for legend and consequently dismiss Rurik as a legendary figure. | | | This was not enough for him, and he started to plunder neighbouring lands: he took Dorestad in 850, captured Haithabu in 857 and looted Bremen in 859. | | | Roerik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870, when his Friesland demesne was returned to him by Charles the Bald; in 882 he is already mentioned as dead. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
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| | DorestadEngels |
| | The Lek possibly gave access to the lower reaches of the Meuse and the Scheldt. | | | The most extensive excavations of Dorestad took place from 1967-1977, during which approximately 30 ha were exposed. | | | Dorestad must have been made up of three parts: the northern harbour district, a central part and a castellum-quarter to the south (the remnants of the former Roman castellum Levefanum). |
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http://www.rgzm.de/Navis2/Harbours/Morel/JaapEnLucas/DorestadEngels.htm
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| | There had been some efforts to christianise the Frysian people since 690 (needless to say, they failed), first by Wilfrid and later by Willibrord. | | | In the spring of 716 he went with some others to London and from there to Dorestad (Wijk bij Duurstede) which was one of the centres of Frysian overseas trade. | | | But Winfrid had come to like the sweet taste of travelling and he went again in 718. |
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http://www.jesuiten.org/english-church/st-boni.html
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| | Michiel F.E. van Reenen - Now |
| | That dike seems endless, so birdwatcher Prakke had lots of time to, from brick factory to brick factory, educate me in the how and why of the feathered rabble overcrowding the rustic water meadows. | | | And also, it's the place that has Eethuys Dorestad. | | | This is where the NetherRhine splits into the Kromme Rijn and Lek, an excellent spot to ponder sins. |
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http://www.chielie.nl/gb_nu_20010304.html
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| | I hope this clears a lot of things up. | | | In fact, there's still a town near the place where Dorestad used to be (not far from where I live...) named "Wijk bij Duurstede". | | | I also learned that ultimately, the harbours of the town got filled with sand and mud, and after extending the quays every couple of years, they just didn't bother to keep up and trade moved to other towns... |
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http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/daily/v940917p1
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| | Dorestad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For Roerik of Dorestad, who led the raid of 857, see Rurik. | | | It was situated on the banks of the river Rhine near the modern city of Wijk bij Duurstede, on the remains of an ancient Roman fortress. | | | Historians think that approximately 7000 Vikings were involved in the first raid in 834. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorestad
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| | Viking in the Netherlands |
| | This time the city was not rebuild, also because the river became sandy. | | | After 820 the defense system in the northern part of the Carolingian state collapsed Between 834 and 837 the city of Dorestad (near the present Wijk bij Duurstede) was destroyed four times. | | | Until 873 there are regular reports of Viking raids and Dorestad was again destructed in 863. |
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http://www.missgien.net/vikings/nld.html
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| | Nada 14 Dorestad |
| | Since the city of Witla was looted in 850, a Nordic garrison had been stationed in Dorestad all those years, but it consisted of only 20 men. | | | Not only because of his red hair he was more than well known in Dorestad. | | | One hour later she saw three musculous Nordics, surrounded by some merchants, coming from the direction of the harbour. |
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http://home.tiscali.nl/runningfox/dorestade.htm
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| | bobsville adventure magazine, page 1 |
| | In 859 a German prince, Roderick Halfdanson the Margrave of Frisia, arrived at Gorodishe with his men at arms and their families and his fleet, they were fleeing the Viking raids on Dorestad. | | | Roderick and Oleg had run a large trading company in Dorestad they had a fleet (their flag was a trident on a blue background) that sailed between Dorestad, Birka in Sweden, London in England, Hedeby in Denmark, Visby on Gotland and Gorodishe in Russia. | | | The Frisian trade from Dorestad was completely destroyed. |
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http://www.bobsville.com/adventure/p1.html
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| | Frisian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This farthest extent of Frisian territory is known as Frisia Magna. | | | In the 5th Century, during this period of historical silence, many of them no doubt joined the migration of the Anglo-Saxons who went through Frisian territory to invade Britain, while those who stayed on the continent expanded into the newly-emptied lands previously occupied by the Anglo-Saxons. | | | By the end of the sixth century the Frisians occupied the coast all the way to the mouth of the Weser and spread farther still in the seventh century, southward down to Dorestad and even Bruges. |
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http://www.bonneylake.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Frisians
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| | Also Rurick had been widely famous before his being called to help Rus’. | | | Having lost Dorestad, not earlier than 864, prince came to Rus’ and put the order here with his well-known methods. | | | Frislandia (Frizia) cooperated in trade with Eastern Europe, their merchants were frequent to come to Ladoga. |
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http://www.museum700.org/37.en.html
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| | Chapter 7: Medieval Silver and Gold |
| | Dorestad, on the Rhine 20 km up river from the coast, had been the major city of the dukes of Frisia, then became an important trading center by 680 AD. | | | The Frisian trade from Dorestad was completely destroyed. | | | Dorestad itself was sacked in 834, and was raided three times in 3 years, and seven times in 30 years. |
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http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~cowen/~GEL115/115CH7.html
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| | Consulate General of Denmark in New York |
| | The town of Dorestad was pillaged several times as were other places in Friesland. | | | From Dorestad goods were transported by ship to other parts of the Frankish realm and to England. | | | The city of Dorestad at the lower course of the Rhine was a major trade center in northern Europe. |
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http://denmark.org/about_denmark/factsheets_articles/factsheets_vikings.html
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| | Viking in the Netherlands |
| | Dorestad was Harald's favourite target, as well af of his follower Rorik. | | | From that time he spent his days gathering wealth on the account of the Frisians. | | | The Frankish kings just gave the Vikings what they wanted so there would be no more riading. |
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http://www.missgien.net/vikings/rorik.html
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| | Nada 18 Lyngstuven |
| | Because you were part of that community and are a part of that of Lyngstuven, you will have the opportunity to make those decisions that make it possible to live in peace forever for both parties. | | | He wants to free his sister Almina, who has been captured as spoils of war by captain Ragnar, alias the ‘Fork Beard’. | | | Whilst maintaining these relations your fate will bring you back to Dorestad in due time, where you will see your family and former friends. |
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http://home.tiscali.nl/runningfox/lyngstuvene.htm
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| | Notorious is the attack of Dorestad (actual Wijk bij Duurstede) during the reign of Louis the Pious (814 –840). | | | century and in 863 Dorestad was looted again and Xanten completely destroyed and these Vikings even wintered in winter-quarters on an island in the Rhine near Xanten. | | | For some decades Dorestad remained in the hands of the Vikings, but after 960 nothing is heard anymore about them. |
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http://www.opdefiets.net/oteman/duffelt3.htm
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| | This period of new rulers is named the Karolingian period after the name of his son Karel (Charles) the Great (768-814). | | | The coins were mostly struck in the South of France but there also were some mints in the Southern parts of the Netherlands (Nijmegen, Tiel, Maastricht, Dorestad). | | | However only the rich leaders and wealthy traders made use of the money. |
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http://www.numismania.cyberforce.nl/general/article/ar012-us.htm
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| | Read more about the book and how to order it here! | | | Because of its geographical situation it became one of the leading emporia on the continent on a crossroads of international long distance trading routes from and to Northern Frisia, North Sea area, Scandinavia and France, the Rhineland and the Meuse valley. | | | Due to extensive excavations on the site by Van Es a lot of information is available on the economy of Dorestad. |
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http://viking.hgo.se/Topic/week23-02.html
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| | History Bookshop.com: Charlemagne's Elephant |
| | Then famished peasants plundered the bonefields of Dorestad (at the mouth of the Rhine), and at the same time Southampton's inquisitive citizens were digging up parts of Hamwic, the eighth-to ninth-century town on the low-lying brick earths in the Itchen-side suburb of St Marys. | | | In common with the line of later eighth- to ninth-century craft workshops found in the central Italian Benedictine monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, these places were awash with material culture much of which has been left for archaeologists to study. | | | South-east of York's Roman walled city, beside the river Foss, a similar tract of a Northumbrian emporium known as Eoforwic has been excavated. |
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http://historybookshop.com/articles/commentary/charlemagne-elephant-ht.asp
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| | the history of Wieringen - the Middle Ages |
| | So much even, that when Dorestad was destroyed, local mint-masters in Hedeby and other Scandinavian cities tried to copy the Dorestad coins. | | | Somewhere between the two we find the Frisian traders who had no problems supplying the Scandinavians with Frankish swords before they became restless and became the Vikings. | | | Money from Dorestad was held in high regard among the Vikings. |
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http://www.pagowirense.nl/english/wr-his2d.htm
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| | DRF--Friesland History |
| | The Frisians were converted to Christianity under pressure of Charlemagne (742-814), king of the Frankonians, although earlier attempts to do so by St. | | | The main centre of trade was Dorestad, from which the Frisians traded with the British, the Swedes, the Danish and several central European communities. |
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http://www.drf.nl/business/history.htm
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| | UTRECHT - LoveToKnow Article on UTRECHT |
| | The bishop's seat had to be fortified against the incursions of the heathen Frisians and Northmen, and the security thus afforded attracted population till, after the destruction of its rival Dorestad by the Normans in the gth century, Utrecht became the chief commercial centre of the northern Netherlands. |
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http://99.1911encyclopedia.org/U/UT/UTRECHT.htm
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| | Wijk bij Duurstede, Sunday 24th October 2004 |
| | We were invited to the local museum (Museum Dorestad) at quite the last minute to do a show there, in the company of a group of Vikings. | | | We had a nice spot in the Roman section, surrounded by Roman and Germanic finds from the period including several from Late Roman times. | | | Once a Roman fort (Levefanum), and later a Carolingian settlement of great renown (Dorestad) which had come to an early demise being ransacked once too often by Viking raiders. |
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http://www.fectio.org.uk/shows/wijk2004_2.htm
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| | Godefrid, 15th King of Haithabu, King of Dorestad and Rustringen, +murdered 885/6; m.882 Gisela of Lotharingia (+after 18.1.908) | | | Roerik, King of Dorestad and Sylt, cr a Frankish Duke, *820, +882; for his possible identity see NOTE |
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http://genealogy.euweb.cz/scand/norway1.html
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| | Silver penny of Louis I 'the Pious' |
| | The importance of Dorestad is shown by the fact that it was attacked repeatedly by the Vikings, but was apparently able to recover enough after each attack to be worth attacking again. | | | The importance of Dorestad's long-distance trade is also indicated by the fact that imitations of coins made at the Dorestad mint were produced both in the town of Hedeby in Denmark and in the kingdom of East Anglia in England. | | | The coin was struck at the important trading centre of Dorestad in Frisia, near the mouth of the Rhine. |
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http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ4491
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| | Viking Diplomacy IV by Joe Janbu |
| | I believe Normandie (the Rouen territory) is at its largest state, but on Great Britain, the areas marked light blue and red were the primary settlements, while larger areas has been held in periods. | | | Another clear liberty is marking Dorestad as the territory of western Netherlands, as if it was to be represented accurately, probably it would have the size of the dot. | | | I doubt you would want to try to place units on that territory, though! |
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http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/v/viking4.htm
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| | It was situated on the banks of river Rhine near the modern city of Wijk bij Duurstede on the remains of an ancient fortress. | | | In the early Middle Ages Dorestad was one of the most important flourishing cities in The Netherlands. | | | In between 600 en 850 Dorestad often the subject of war between Frisians and Franks. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Dorestad
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| | Rent helms - NetSword Discussion Forums |
| | I think it very unlikely, that in 835 (only a year after its 'destruction'), Dorestad was once again the most important emporium in the Low Countries. | | | For example, in 834 the Vikings looted and completely destroyed Dorestad, yet they looted Dorestad again in 835 (and 837, 846 and 847); at least, that what the monks wrote. | | | Most, if not all records on the Viking raids were not written by eyewitnesses. |
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http://www.netsword.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000618.html
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| | Wieringen in de middeleeuwen - 5.1: de Vikingen komen |
| | Enkele tientallen jaren later werd Dorestad, de belangrijkste Friese handelsstad met behulp van Frankische zwaarden vernietigd. | | | Toen Dorestad niet langer bestond werd het door lokale muntmeesters in Hedeby en andere Scandinavische steden gekopieerd. | | | Nog eeuwen later wordt met ontzag gesproken over de rampen die de Engelse kusten toen teisterden, en richt men monumenten op ter nagedachtenis. |
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http://www.pagowirense.nl/wr-ges2d.asp
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| | De Friezen |
| | De ambachtslieden in Dorestad hielden zich bezig met het gieten van ijzer, weven, scheepsbouw, leerbewerking. | | | Het door Dagobert gebouwde kerkje in Utrecht was vernield, de muntslag in Dorestad opgehouden. | | | Hij gaf de bisschop van York, Wilfrid, de toestemming het christendom te prediken, doch veel succes had de bekering niet. |
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http://users.pandora.be/vroege-middeleeuwen/friezen.htm
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| | H-Soz-u-Kult / Early Medieval Europe |
| | Catholic Goths are presented both as the heirs of christianized Roman culture (which included the acceptance and transformation of catholic anti-Judaism), and as the champions of historical progress, allegedly overcoming different kinds of pre-Christian, 'barbarian' religion. | | | In any list of Carolingian emporia, Quentovic and Dorestad feature prominently, yet the numismatic evidence reveals a complete contrast between the two. | | | Only thirty years later, the situation was dramatically reversed: Dorestad rapidly declined and disappeared, while Quentovic enjoyed a remarkable renaissance. |
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http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/id=206&count=1&recno=1&ausgabe=1202
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| | Greg Bard's Genealogical Records |
| | Marriage: 882 Gudrød (Godefrid) Haraldsson, King of Haitabu, Dorestad and Rustrigen | | | Called Godefrid //, King of Haitabu, Dorestad and Rustrigen. | | | Husband: Gudrød (Godefrid) Haraldsson, King of Haitabu, Dorestad and Rustrigen |
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http://www.shocking.com/~gregbard/genealogy/fam02098.php
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| | Hedeby avlöste Dorestad som viktig handelsplats under vikingatiden. | | | Omkring 800-talet ingick Dorestad i kejsar Karl den store rike och han tog skatt från vid Dorestad. | | | Sten Bengtsson (Bielke), Stefan von Weberstedt, Befolkning, Kiribati, Nationalsång, Slatte, Peder Slatte, Du gamla, du fria, Borgholms slott, Borgholms kungsgård, Bjärtrå kungsgård, Magnus Birgersson av Sverige, Vapenoffer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Slaget vid Sigtuna, Björkö, Köpingsvik, Dorestad, Isak, Richard E. Leakey, Absinthe, Bob Dylan, Stefan & Krister, Germanska språk, Kastal, Kärntorn, Nicodemus Tessin d.y. |
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http://sv.freeglossary.com/Hedeby
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| | Archeology Middle Ages |
| | The rest of the Middle Ages (900 - 1350) can be found in the Mediaeval town of 'Gravendam' (the Count's Dam). | | | Built on the ruins of a Roman fort near the River Rhine, the small town of Dorestad was an important port of transshipment and commerce. | | | In the 11th century Dorestad was raided by the Vikings. |
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http://www.archeon.nl/lang_uk/park_mid.htm
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| | Helderline - Shell Tanker 'Dorestad' |
| | Add your name to the Dorestad, and meet your former friends and colleagues! | | | Have you (also) been a sailor on this ship? | | | If you have information about this ship, e-mail me. |
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http://www.helderline.nl/ship_details.php?id=366
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| | Year after year the raids went on under a succession of leaders—Heriold, Roruk, Rolf, Godfrey—and far and wide there was pillaging, burning, See also: | | | In 834 vasions Utrecht and Dorestad were sacked, and a few years of the later all Holland and See also: | | | During the 9th and loth centuries the Netherlands suffered cruelly from the attacks of the Northmen, who ravaged the The -n- shores and at times penetrated far inland. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/NAN_NEW/NETHERLANDS.html
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| | 11. The Carolingian Economy |
| | W.J.H. Verwers, "Dorestad: a Carolingian Town?," in Hodges and Hobley, eds., The Rebirth of Towns (1988) pp.52-6. | | | Simon Coupland, "Dorestad in the Ninth Century: The Numismatic Evidence," Jaarboek voor Munt- en Penningkunde, 75 (1988), 5-26. | | | W.A. Van Es and W.J.H. Verwers, Excavations at Dorestad 1: The Harbour, Hoogstraat 1, Nederslandse Oudheden no. 9 (Amersfoort,1980). |
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http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/carolingian/11economy.html
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| | CalendarHome.com - 830s - Calendar Encyclopedia |
| | Louis the Pious and his sons fight about the division of the empire. | | | They plunder Dorestad and establish themselves in Ireland. | | | The Viking raids in Western Europe get more severe. |
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http://encyclopedia.calendarhome.com/830s.htm
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| | (Dorestad: name of the ancient place which was situated near the present Dutch town "Wijk bij Duurstede"). | | | A word that we encounter for instance in the name Dorestad as well. | | | However, normally we do not not encounter this word or derivative in names in the northern regions of Holland. |
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http://home.planet.nl/~dijkh287/kastelen/ukpag/nuwduk1.htm
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| | Vanaf 834 tot en met 837 plunderen Vikingen uit Denemarken ieder jaar het belangrijke handelscentrum Dorestad. | | | De haven van Dorestad is aan het verzanden en de invallen van de Vikingen geven het stadje de doodssteek. | | | In Lage Landen begint het met sporadische aanvallen van kleine groepen Vikingen. |
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http://www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/tijdbalk.asp
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| | 834: Dorestad geplunderd door Vikingen - Archeonet |
| | De eerste plundering van Dorestad door Noormannen vond in 834 plaats. | | | Na een eeuw van plunderingen hebben de Vikingen waarschijnlijk ingezien dat er met handel drijven meer te halen was uit het nog steeds rijke rivierengebied dan met plunderingen. | | | Wat wel duidelijk uit de overblijfselen naar voren komt, is dat de Noormannen een rijke cultuur kenden met een superieure scheepvaarttechnologie (zoals een oervorm van een kompas en snelle, flexibele zeewaardige boten) en edelsmeedkunst (zoals prachtige sieraden en mantelspelden). |
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http://www.archeonet.nl/index.php?itemid=6694&catid=15
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| | TheSims2.com - BBS - Messages |
| | I also have a neighbourhood houses, it is in a separate Sims 2 folder and I use it to create hack-free houses. | | | I like to upload them and after the houses are finished I import them into my Dorestad neighbourhood. | | | Was going to be just a test run for... |
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http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=f8dcdb2fb4ee624076613f05de4bb5ad&directoryID=2
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http://www.termsdefined.net/85/857.html
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Willibald: The Life of St. Boniface |
| | After a few days, when the sailors were about to embark on their return home, Boniface asked permission of the shipmaster to go on board, and after paying his fare he set sail and came with a favorable winds to Dorestad, where he tarried for a while and gave thanks to God night and day. | | | Moreover, the pagan shrines were rebuilt and, what is worse, the worship of idols was restored. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html
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| | The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights |
| | The gold coinage of the Carolingians that was sparse in the first place is represented by a few examples including the rarest type - a gold solidus minted in Dorestad. | | | The Hermitage possesses both examples known today of the coins minted by Count Floris of Holland (1049-1061). |
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http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_7_1_3.html
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| | Alles is op loopafstand en het is een sfeervol en gezellig stadje met een rijke historie. | | | Het kruisvormige versieringsmotief in het midden van de broche toont grote overeenkomst met patronen op kerkelijke gebruiksvoorwerpen uit Zuid-Duitsland en Zwitserland. | | | In Museum Dorestad ligt een copie van de broche. |
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http://www.artlab.nl/mdorestad/expo.html
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| | Deze pagina over de stad Utrecht gaat terug in de tijd tot ongeveer 6 eeuwen sinds onze jaartelling. | | | geschiedenis middeleeuwen 20-ste eeuw utrecht koning pippijn willibrord bisschoppen dorestad rijn kerk smeetoren dom pieterskerk janskerk grachten vismarkt domplein keizer karel V willem van oranje wittevrouwenpoort oldenbarnevelt maurits everard meyster leische rijn oog in al zonnekoning lodewijk de XIV willem III 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 |
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| | Remind you can officially secure foll vsl for sale - dets wog: MV ''HEIDI II'' ============== - L.D.W. M/V TBN CMR Flag Bulk 6.174 Mtdw on 6,70MBlt 5/1976 Asakawa (JPN) dorestad | | | M/V Sumatra Sid BC Italian Flag Built 87 BRASIL Dwt 7800 On 7.50 mtrs dorestad | | | MV ''HEIDI II'' DWT 12930 DWCC ABT 11.900 BUILT APRIL 1975 dorestad |
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http://www.maritimecentral.com/s/23919/dorestad.htm
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