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  • Thumbnail for John the Merciful
    in a separate chapel. Another relic of him was sent by Sultan Bayezid II in 1489 to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. It was placed in the private...
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    other works. King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary invited him to his court, and it is said that the destruction on the journey of some inlay work he was taking...
    5 KB (592 words) - 21:46, 18 March 2024
  • of England, died of tuberculosis but said to have been poisoned by her husband Richard III Matthias Corvinus (d. 1490), King of Hungary Catherine of Aragon...
    31 KB (3,950 words) - 10:15, 20 July 2024
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    astronomical instruments. Next he went to Buda, and the court of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, for whom he built an astrolabe, and where he collated Greek...
    19 KB (1,998 words) - 01:25, 12 June 2024
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    Cestius' heirs as Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, a famous general; Publius Rutilius Lupus, an orator whose father of the same name had been consul in 90...
    18 KB (2,022 words) - 23:19, 8 July 2024
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    Montecorvino Rovella (category Municipalities of the Province of Salerno)
    series of villages, easily controllable in case of further riots. One of them was Montecorvino (Mons Corvinus). Until 1820 it included the village of Pugliano...
    6 KB (419 words) - 00:21, 30 December 2023
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    Leonardo da Vinci (category Ambassadors of the Republic of Florence)
    spring of 1485, Leonardo travelled to Hungary (on behalf of Sforza) to meet king Matthias Corvinus, and was commissioned by him to paint a Madonna. In 1490...
    137 KB (14,845 words) - 21:28, 20 July 2024
  • Library of Congress. 1990. ISBN 978-0-16-029202-6. Retrieved 6 March 2009. Józsa Hévizi Autonomies in Europe and Hungary. (PDF). Corvinus Society (2004)...
    158 KB (19,257 words) - 19:16, 3 July 2024
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    Middle Ages (category History of Europe by period)
    aristocrat George of Poděbrady (r. 1457–71) king, which gave the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458–90) an excuse to conquer parts of the Czech lands...
    171 KB (20,126 words) - 02:21, 2 August 2024
  • Confucius (Kong Fuzi) Nicolaus Copernicus (Niklas Koppernigk) Laurentius Corvinus (Lorenz Rabe) Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerardo da Cremona) Nicolaus Cusanus...
    59 KB (6,886 words) - 05:51, 28 July 2024
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    Collegiate Schools of Business's (AACSB) Accounting Accreditation. The AACSB accredits business schools by evaluating critical areas of each school to ensure...
    64 KB (777 words) - 05:14, 28 May 2024
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    beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile...
    183 KB (1,458 words) - 15:41, 25 May 2024
  • Christoph Corvinus. In De Luce naturae physica, this disciple of Paracelsus makes a detailed parallel between the Table and the first chapter of the Genesis...
    74 KB (7,944 words) - 18:36, 5 July 2024
  • archaeology Richard Cooke (1946–2023) British?; Panama, archaeozoology Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006) German; India/Nepal/Africa Peter Coutts (born 1934) Australian;...
    85 KB (9,468 words) - 18:42, 1 August 2024
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    Skanderbeg (category Governors of the Ottoman Empire)
    in diplomacy, finance, and purchase of arms. John Gazulli, a doctor, was sent to the court of king Matthias Corvinus to coordinate the offensive against...
    140 KB (16,765 words) - 15:04, 30 July 2024
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    book, titled Stellarium (1480), to King Matthias Corvinus, he emphasized that he had used the meridian of Buda for his calculations. The German physician...
    60 KB (4,782 words) - 14:40, 3 August 2024
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    diplomacy, finance, and purchase of arms. John Gazulli, a doctor, was sent to the court of king Matthias Corvinus to coordinate the offensive against Mehmed...
    92 KB (10,789 words) - 15:29, 14 July 2024
  • towers and two bastions, are still preserved. Withstood sieges by Matthias Corvinus in 1480/1481 and by the Ottoman Empire in 1532. Novo Mesto Piran – 7th-century...
    163 KB (9,492 words) - 22:52, 28 July 2024
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    Josquin des Prez (category Classical composers of church music)
    Ascanio Sforza, may have worked in Vienna for the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and wrote the motet Ave Maria ... Virgo serena, and the popular chansons...
    112 KB (13,217 words) - 14:31, 28 July 2024
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    23 September 1508), queen of Hungary as wife of Matthias Corvinus and queen of Bohemia and Hungary as wife of Vladislaus II of Hungary; Francesco (December...
    143 KB (19,976 words) - 16:24, 20 July 2024
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