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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Ardea
Britannica 11thARDEA. a town of the Kutuli in Latium, 3 m. from the S.W. coast, where its harbour (Caslrum Inui) lay, at the mouth of the stream now known as Fosso dell' Incastro, and 23 m. S. of Rome by the Via Ardeatina. It was founded, according to legend, either by a son ...
Tarde
Britannica 11thTARDE, GABRIEL (1843-1004), French sociologist, was born at Sarlat (Dordogne) in 1843. Entering the legal profession, he was for some time a juge d'instruction in his native town, becoming afterwards head of the statistical department of the ministry of justic
Aranda
Britannica 11thARANDA, PEDRO PABLO ABARCA DE BOLEA, COUNT OP (1719-1798), Spanish minister and general, was born at the castle of Sietamo, a lordship of his family near Hucsca in Aragon, on the ist of August 1719. The house of Abarca was very ancient, a fact of which Don Ped
Arcade
Britannica 11thARCADE, in architecture, a range of arches, supported either by columns or piers; isolated in the case of those separating the nave of a church from the aisles, or forming the front of a covered ambulatory, as in the cloisters in Italy and Sicily, round the Du
Armada
Britannica 11thARMADA, THE. The Spanish or Invincible Armada was the great fleet (in Spanish, armada) sent against England by Philip II. in 1 588. The marquis of Santa Cruz, to whom the command had first been given, died on the 0th of February 1588 (according to the Gregoria
Artena
Britannica 11thARTENA, a village of Italy, in the province of Rome, situated at the N.N.W. extremity of the Volscian Mountains; it is 36 m. S.E. by rail, and 24 m. direct from Rome. Pop. (1901) 5016. On the mountain above it (2073 ft.) are the fine remains of the fortificati
Arteoa
Britannica 11thARTEOA, a tribe of African " Arabs," said to be descendants of a sheik of that name who came from Hadramut in preIslamic days, settling near Tokar. The name is said to be " patrician," and the Artega may be regarded as the most ancient stock in the Suakin dist
Antium
Britannica 11th... e, early in the 4th century B.C., may perhaps be accepted. Antium is named with Ardea, Laurentum and Circeii, as under Roman protection, in the treaty with Carthage in 348 B.C. In 341 it lost its independence after a rising with the rest of Latium against Rome ...
Ardashir
Britannica 11th... han seventy years old. Having tried to make himself independent from the court, ARDEA— ARDECHE and having executed some of the grandees, he was deposed after a reign of four years. (3) AKDASUII III. (628-630), son of Kavadh II., was raised to the throne as a b ...
Sun-Bittern
Britannica 11th... d description and fair figure of it, calling it the Surinamische Sonnenreyger," Ardea helias, the first author to notice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the name of " Sonnenvogel," was published at Amsterdam in 1759 (Descr., &c., de Surinam, i ...