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 <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Khazar <b>rulersb> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fate <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Jewish Khazars is unclear.
In 969 Sviatoslav I <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Kiev sacked Itil, the capital <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazar Khaganate.
Khazar Jews are known to have lived in Kiev and even to have emigrated to Spain, the Byzantine Empire, and Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Khazar_rulers

  
 Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The possible Khazar contribution to the bloodline <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> modern Ashkenazi Jews is politically sensitive and has been the subject <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> much discussion, but most geneticists now believe that it is unsubstantial.
Documents from medieval Constantinople attest to a Khazar community mingled with the Jews <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the suburb <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Pera.
Ibn Fadlan relates that around 920 the Khazar ruler received information that Muslims had destroyed a synagogue in the land <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Babung, in Iran ; he gave orders that the minaret <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the mosque in his capital should be broken off, and the muezzin executed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars

  
 The Fall <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazar Empire
The initiator <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the movement was a Khazar Jew, one Solomon ben Duji (or Ruhi or Roy), aided by his son Menahem and a Palestinian scribe.
Thus Ibn Hawkal says the Khazars <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Itil fled from the Rus to one <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the islands <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the "naphta coast" [Baku], but later returned to Itil and Khazaran with the aid <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Muslim Shah <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Shirwan.
In striking contrast to the Russian Chronicle, these epics do not mention by name the Khazars or their country; instead they speak <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the "country <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Jews" (Zemlya Jidovskaya), and <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> its inhabitants as "Jewish heroes" (Jidovin bogatir) who ruled the steppes and fought the armies <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Russian princes.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/13trib04.htm

  
 An Introduction to the History <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Khazaria
The wars established the Caucasus and the city <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Derbent as the boundary between the Khazars and the Arabs.
The earliest history <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazars in southern Russia, prior to the middle <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the 6th century, is hidden in obscurity.
In the capital city, the Khazars established a supreme court composed <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 7 members, and every religion was represented on this judicial panel (according to one contemporary Arab chronicle, the Khazars were judged according to the Torah, while the other tribes were judged according to other laws).
http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html

  
 The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler Khazar JewsThe revelation <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> another jewish hoax
Marwan was not only the last Arab general to attack the Khazars, he was also the last Caliph to pursue an expansionist policy devoted, at least in theory, to the ideal <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> making Islam triumph all over the world.
The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.
Relying on its military strength, the Khazar kingdom, with its hinterland <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> vassal tribes, was determined to preserve its position as the Third Force, leader <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the uncommitted nations <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the steppes.
http://www.abbc.net/historia/13tribe.htm

  
 The Decline <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazar Empire
The extent <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> this influence is indicated by the adoption <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the title "Kagan" by the early Rus <b>rulersb> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Novgorod.
Indeed we may conclude that the Khazars had not merely permitted the Magyars to establish themselves to the west <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Don, but had actually planted them there to serve the Khazars' own purposes.
The Magyars had been the Khazars' allies, and apparently willing vassals, since the dawn <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazar Empire.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/13trib03.htm

  
 RUSSIA
Although the Russian Varangians were assimilating with the Slavs quickly, as late as Mstislav I the <b>rulersb> are still well aware <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> their Norse origins and have Scandinavian names as well as Slavic ones -- in his case Harald (which also happened to be the name <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> his English grandfather).
My source for the Hetmans, for the subsequent Republic during the Russian Revolution, and even for some <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the text here, is a Ukrainian correspondent, Max Zherebkin, who cites as his sources Ukraine: A History, by Orest Subtelny [University <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Toronto Press, 1988] and the on-line Encylopedia <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Ukraine.
At Tsushima itself, the Japanese had a tactical and material edge (their British built ships actually were better, and many Russian shells were duds), not the least because the Russians had just sailed around the world, but also because <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> unexpected Japanese tactics.
http://www.friesian.com/russia.htm   (8840 words)

  
 Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 164
He said the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> "has no basis in truth and we do not know its reasons." He added that the accusation "is an attempt to slander those who stand against the American occupation <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Iraq and stand with the Iraqi resistance and the Iraqi brethren and cooperate and support them." [29]
Because releasing the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> shows Saddam Hussein's bribery <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> hundreds <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> politicians and journalists from 50 Arab and foreign countries, the Arab media have neither pursued the issue nor investigated the matter.
In an interview with the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Lahoud maintained that his inclusion on the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> was aimed at undermining the position taken by his father which "supports the [Palestinian] resistance, stands by Syria, rejects the occupation <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Iraq, and demands the liberation <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> all the Palestinian lands." [32]
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16404   (3908 words)

  
 ISCIP Publication Series: Number 12
And suddenly it appears that, if there is a close analogy to the present state <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> mind <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Russian intelligentsia, it is the state <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> mind <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> its Serbian counterpart--at the moment <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Yugoslavia's collapse.
To be sure, the Russian "patriotic" communists would add to this mix a good deal <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> ferocious anti-Westernism.
There is no doubt that a Russian Milosevic, if he is indeed destined to come to the helm <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the nation, will perform on the Russian intelligentsia the very same operation as his Serbian prototype.
http://www.bu.edu/iscip/pubseries/GennadiZyuganov.Pub12.html   (9116 words)

  
 Russia -- is it headed for dictatorship? -- will the Antichrist come out <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Russia? -- a Bible prophecy and New Age analysis
Also note that two years later, in August 2001, it was announced that the tomb <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Genghis Khan, the murderous Mongol leader <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> around 1200 AD who conquered much <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the world, had been possibly found in Mongolia.
Stalingrad was Stalin at his best, where he saved the world from Hitler; it is unfortunate that he suffered from paranoid episodes that resulted in his murdering millions <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Russian people.
Also discussed here is the new Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the possibility that he is the Antichrist described in the Book <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Revelation, Chapter 13, who is also the third Antichrist <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Prophecies <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Nostradamus, believed by some writers on Nostradamus to be named "Mabus".
http://www.revelation13.net/Russians.html   (8043 words)

  
 Russian and East European Institute
A complete <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Russian words and their English translations is located at the back <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the book.
This book examines the Russian revolutions <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 1917 and the turbulent years that followed through the motives and personalities not only <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Tsar and the revolutionary leaders, but also <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> many <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the ordinary people whose lives were affected by this period <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> upheaval.
The Chronicle <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Russian Tsars also places the tsars in historical context by including a discussion <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the key political debates <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the time.
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/audiovisual/avoutrea.html   (8557 words)

  
 HISTORY <<b>bb>>OFb>bb>> BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BOOKS SOURCE, FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Bosnia was one <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the economically poorer republics <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> socialist Yugoslavia, but it was built up noticeably using federal funds for underdeveloped regions.
Thousands <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies were killed by the Fascist Ustaša regime.
After World_War_II ended, Bosnia and Herzegovina became one <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the six republics <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Yugoslavia in 1945, when the country was re-organized as a communist federal state under Josip_Broz_Tito.
http://www.lilbooks.com/History_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina   (5424 words)

  
 The Protocols <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Zion heve been used to demonize Jews as a scapegoat for authoritarian <b>rulersb> who despise democracy.
The Protocols <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Zion heve been used to demonize Jews as a scapegoat for authoritarian <b>rulersb> who despise democracy.
Rather, it employed the rhetorical device <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a supposed Jewish/Mason conspiracy to attack democrats trying to reform the Russian Empire, accusing them <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> being agents <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the imaginary Jewish conspiracy.
Especially if they were writing a pamphlet which used a fictional meeting <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> "Elders <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Zion" as a device to boost the Aristocracy and paint its opponents as "agents <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Jews".
http://emperors-clothes.com/antisem/protocols-1.htm   (1415 words)

  
 Russian Government, Politics - JRL 2005
Historians and present-day politicians differ in their opinions about the role <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the army in the storming <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the White House
Authors <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> “Kremlin Rising” Say Russian President Putin Is Rolling Back Liberal Economic and Political Reforms
Court upholds constitutionality <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> new gubernatorial election procedures
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/jrl-2005-politics.cfm   (2537 words)

  
 bcr_19990723_3_eng.txt
Tudjman Draws A Veil Over Jasenovac's Croatian Legacy Zagreb's <b>rulersb> are avoiding a fair and frank assessment <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the role <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Croatians in the murder <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> tens <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> thousands <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croats during World War II.
Thus it would be an illusion to expect that Tudjman and his government will be ready to condemn the perpetrators <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Ustase fascism for their acts yesterday, given the kind <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> people they so happily flirt with today.
By Drago Hedl in Rijeka (BCR No 60, 23-Jul-99) When the elderly Dinko Sakic was extradited to Croatia last year to face charges in connection with his command <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the World War II concentration camp run by the Croat fascists (Ustase) at Jasenovac, the Croatian government found itself in a tricky position.
http://www.iwpr.net/archive/bcr/bcr_19990723_3_eng.txt   (1064 words)

  
 Everbrite's Notes about Russian Consulates
Or if you read Russian, you can check the Russian Ministry <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Foreign Affairs site for their <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Russian consulates, including the address, telephone and fax numbers and email address.
After I told a British national about the Russian visa, he asked the agency what the fee is for him - 364 Litas for one day issuance <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a one month tourist visa.
This situation <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> refusing to issue visas for non-Chinese citizens appears to be is similar that for German citizens.
http://members.aol.com/imershein/Page3.html   (8643 words)

  
 Muscovy - Psychology Central
More important to Moscow's development in what became the state <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Muscovy, however, was its rule by a series <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> princes who were ambitious, determined, and lucky.
Muscovy drew people and wealth to the northeastern part <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Kievan Rus'; established trade links to the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, and the Caspian Sea and to Siberia; and created a highly centralized and autocratic political system.
Under Mikhail, state affairs were in the hands <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the tsar's father, Filaret, who in 1619 became patriarch <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Orthodox Church.
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Muscovy   (3905 words)

  
 Bosnia-Hercegovina and the failure <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> reform in Austria-Hungary
After they occupied Bosnia in 1878, the Habsburgs had an ideal opportunity to show the superiority <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> political and economic reform as a path to better lives, and as an alternative to ethnic nationalism and revolutionary unrest.
In order to understand what happened in Bosnia between 1878 and 1918, and because <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the high level <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> interest in Bosnia because <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Yugoslav civil war <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the 1990s, it makes sense to sum up Bosnia's prior history and point out the unique aspects <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Bosnian society.
As we look at the period <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Habsburg rule in Bosnia, the results are disappointing from both economic and political perspectives.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect12.htm   (3977 words)

  
 International Forum Bosnia - BOSRED
The purpose <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the project is to present important scholarly facts to the general public in Bosnia and Herzegovina in an understandable and acceptable manner, with the aim <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> improving interpersonal relations and the quality <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> life <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the people <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.
With the arrival <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Turks and the Jews, Bosnia and Herzegovina was enriched with new world views, with new cultural syncretisms.
New technology is a part <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the new political, economic and civilizational relations in the society <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Bosnia and Herzegovina.
http://www.ifbosna.org.ba/engleski/istrazivanja/projekti   (4707 words)

  
 The antediluvian patriarchs and the Sumerian King <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>
This would have been the right environment for the production <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a work such as the King <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> that seeks to present the history <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Babylonia as a succession <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> different national kingdoms passing from one city to another.
<<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the duration <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Antediluvian Sumerian reigns.
The Sumerian <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> assigns an average reign duration <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 30,150 years, with a total duration for the period <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 241,200 years, compared to an average age <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the biblical patriarchs <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 858 years and a sum <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 8575 years for their full lives.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v12/i3/sumerian.asp   (8256 words)

  
 Eri24
The report also listed improvements in religious freedom during the past year, placing Mexico at the top <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>.
The report was sharply critical <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> religious practices in Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, even though the countries are not on the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>>.
The Taliban and the governments <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> China, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar and Sudan were also on the <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> last year.
http://www.eri24.com/news95.htm   (581 words)

  
 <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>Ofb>bb>> Not Fully Sovereign Nations [Definition]
In many <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the states listed here, such as Quebec and Puerto Rico, voters have repeatedly rejected separation.
Bougainville and the adjacent island <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons, and are ecologically and geographically, although not politically, considered part <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Solomon Islands.
The islands are known mostly because the original settlers were mutineers <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> HMAV Bounty, as well as Tahitians those mutineers took along, as described in the book Mutiny on the Bounty, later depicted in a number <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> movies.
http://www.wikimirror.com/List_of_not_fully_sovereign_nations   (581 words)

  
 iBHY: Application <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> 20 March 1993 - Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia
Now Bosnia is being punished for being open, universal and human, for trying to restore human and democratic values after decades <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> communist rule.
Fifty Muslims claimed to have been deported from their homes in the Zvornik and Bijeljina municipalities in Bosnia by Serbs, and forcibly deported to the city <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Subotica on the Hungarian and Serbian border.
According to investigations by both Amnesty International and the European Council, the rapes and sexual abuses that are occurring in Bosnia and Herzegovina are part <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a deliberate and organized plan <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> destruction <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Muslim people.
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/ibhy/ibhyorders/ibhy_iapplication_19930320.htm   (19055 words)

  
 The Arab Betrayal <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Balkan Islam - Middle East Quarterly - Spring 2002
A disregard among certain Arabs for U.S. protection <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Kuwaiti <b>rulersb>, and by extension the Saudi monarchy, is perhaps understandable.
Even pious Muslims among the Arabs have been known to admire Saddam Husayn, or to think that his invasion <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Kuwait paled in comparison with Saudi corruption.
Some Bosnians have told me they believed that the Arabs favored reduction <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Muslim Bosnia to its most narrow ethnic territory (a strip from Mostar to Tuzla, including Sarajevo) if this would advance a separatist, supremacist, and Wahhabi agenda.
http://www.meforum.org/article/166   (4402 words)

  
 <Turkistan-Newsletter> Volume:97-1:33, 11 August 1997
could be held only by a Khazar from the royal clan who professed Judaism.
Khazars and the Arabs at the border town <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Bab al-Abwab (Derbend).
may simply indicate the ongoing Judaization <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Khazars themselves.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/TN9733.htm   (4402 words)

  
 Eastern Europe: Part II: Bosnia, Yugoslavia, the Holocaust in Yugoslavia
<<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> World Wide Web and other Internet Resources in and about Bosnia
It was Slobodan Milosevic who used a version <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the history <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Serbdom to drive or lead or lure (depending on one's version) his people to nationalist euphoria and an explosion <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> vicious cruelty and destruction.
Established 1992 by UN Security Council after UN resolution on war crimes in Yugoslavia in response to "credible reports <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> atrocities in the former Yugoslavia on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi era.
http://www.omnibusol.com/bosnia-yugos.html   (5472 words)

  
 Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation: Western Civilization, Act II
The crime <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> heresy was defined as a deliberate denial <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> an article <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> truth <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Catholic faith, and a public and obstinate persistence in that alleged error.
Recipes, articles, newsletters, biographies, and even a mailing <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> for Ale connoisseurs.
Listed by royal house, excellent articles contain genealogies, maps and links to prehistoric period and Roman period, Anglo-Saxons, Arthur, Medieval Britain, Reformation, myths and legends.
http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html   (13770 words)

  
 Guide and Index to Lists <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> <b>Rulersb>
This is all collapsed in the table above into the category <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> "Pre-Roman <b>Rulersb>," but it is, <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> course, a vast subject, beginning with Egypt and Sumer and continuing right up to the kingdoms <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Hellenistic age.
One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> dynasties and <b>rulersb>, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the people.
A skeleton for history <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> <b>rulersb>, with maps and genealogies, provides a perspective <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> time and space, and on real individuals whom we know about, that is otherwise hard to obtain.
http://www.friesian.com/histindx.htm   (3013 words)

  
 <<<b>bb>>bb>bb>>>Listb>bb>>bb>bb>>> <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> country name etymologies - Iridis Encyclopedia
Pitcairn Islands ( overseas territory <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the United Kingdom): the remote islands were discovered by a member <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the English Captain Philip Carteret 's crew in his boat HMS Swallow in July 1767.
Falkland Islands (territory <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the United Kingdom): the sound (straight) between the two main islands was named the Falkland Sound by the English Captain John Strong when he landed on the islands in 1690.
Norfolk Island (territory <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Australia): named by Captain James Cook in 1774, who was so struck by its beauty that he named it in honour <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the ninth Duchess <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Norfolk, wife <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a noble peer and benefactor.
http://www.iridis.com/glivar/List_of_country_name_etymologies   (3013 words)

  
 Russia
This vast region <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> Eurasia has been home to countless peoples and nations.
Around the 830's, Arab travelogues begin describing a Khaganate <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Rus, located far to the north.
Its final conquest in 1552 is seen by Russians as something <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a watershed, in that the reconquest <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> a Mongol stronghold immediately after the establishment <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> the Czarist Empire (1547) is regarded as putting a seal <<b>bb>>ofb>bb>> legitimacy on the new state.
http://www.hostkingdom.net/russia.html   (2046 words)

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