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On Japanese maps, a swastika (left-facing and horizontal) is used to mark the location of a Buddhist temple. The right-facing swastika is often referred to as the gyaku manji (逆卍, lit. "reverse swastika") or migi manji (右卍, lit. "right swastika"), and can also be called kagi jūji (鉤十字, literally "hook cross").
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (UK: / uːˈmaɪjæd /, [ 2 ] US: / uːˈmaɪæd /; [ 3 ] Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, romanized:al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) [ 4 ] was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. [ pron 1 ] Uthman ibn ...
The Pannonian Avars (/ ˈ æ v ɑːr z / AV-arz) were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins. [8] The peoples were also known as the Obri in chronicles of Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai [9] (Greek: Βαρχονίτες, romanized: Varchonítes), or Pseudo-Avars [10] in Byzantine sources, and the Apar (Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰺) to the Göktürks (Kultegin Inscription ...
The Thracians (/ ˈθreɪʃənz /; Ancient Greek: Θρᾷκες, romanized:Thrāikes; Latin: Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe and north-western Anatolia in antiquity. [ 1 ][ 2 ] They primarily resided on the territories of modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, northern Greece and north-western ...
The Holy Roman Empire, [ f ] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [ 19 ] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (/ ˈfætɪmɪd /; Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْفَاطِمِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty. Spanning a large area of North Africa and West Asia, it ranged ...
The Flag of Sicily, regarded as a regional icon, was first adopted in 1282, after the Sicilian Vespers of Palermo. [200] It is characterised by the presence of the triskeles in the middle, depicting the head of Medusa and three wheat ears representing the extreme fertility of the land of Sicily. In early mythology, when Medusa was slain and ...
Belisarius[Note 3] (Latin pronunciation: [bɛ.lɪˈsaː.ri.ʊs]; Greek: Βελισάριος; c. 500[Note 4] – March 565) [2] was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the former Western Roman Empire, which had ...