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Page of Arnold von Harff's book, with the Breton-low German vocabulary with a drawing of the way Nantes people were dressed

Arnold von Harff (1471 in Castell Harff, Bedburg – January 1505) was a 15th-century German traveler from Köln. He went on pilgrimage to many countries, collecting both languages and cultural information. He wrote about a number of languages during his travels (1496-1499): Breton, Turkish, Basque, Hebrew, Arabic, Albanian, Hungarian, Syriac, Amharic, and Armenian.

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Arnold von Harff

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Arnold von Harff (1471 in Castell Harff, Bedburg – January 1505) was a 15th-century German traveler from Köln. He went on pilgrimage to many countries...

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Cats in ancient Egypt

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held for cats. They were still respected in the 15th century, when Arnold von Harff travelled to Egypt and observed mamluk warriors treating cats with...

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James II of Cyprus

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Period, 1432–1571. Cambridge University Press. Letts, Malcolm (2016). The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff, Knight, from Cologne, 1496-1499. Routledge....

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John II of Cyprus

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University of New York Press. Letts, Malcolm, ed. (2017). The Pilgrimage of Arnold Von Harff, Knight, from Cologne: Through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia...

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Egyptian egg oven

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their internal heat would be done by pressing an egg to the eyelids. Arnold von Harff mentioned the ovens in the 1490s. He was awed by how, in consequence...

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Santa Maria del Popolo

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Nikolaus Muffel's Description of Rome (1452) or The Pilgrimage of Arnold Von Harff (1497). The factual basis of the legend is weak. Nero was indeed buried...

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Culture of Albania

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Bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli; a glossary of Albanian words of 1497 by Arnold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th-century fragment...

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Alodia

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Late 15th century illustration of Arab horseman by Arnold von Harff...

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Dupnitsa

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Province. The town has existed since ancient times. The German traveller Arnold von Harff visited Dupnitsa in 1499 and described it as a "beautiful town". The...

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Bedburg

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Arnold von Harff (1471–1505), knight and adventurer Katharina Molitor (born 1983), javelin thrower and volleyball player Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff (1871–1918)...

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Albanian literature

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of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli; a glossary with Albanian words of 1497 by Arnold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th-century fragment...

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Erkelenz

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have worked here or whose name is closely connected with the city: Arnold von Harff (1471–1505), the knight and pilgrim lived from 1499 on a not survived...

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Anna Maria van Schurman

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wealthy parents, Frederik van Schurman, from Antwerp (d. 1623) and Eva von Harff de Dreiborn. At four years old she could read. When she was six, she had...

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Outline of the Greek genocide

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403–405. doi:10.1017/S0020743816000234. JSTOR 43998137. S2CID 163540480. Harff, Barbara (1996). "Reviewed work: Death by Government, R. J. Rummel". The...

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Schloss Allner

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commemorating the wedding of Johann Wallraff Scheiffart von Merode and Maria Anna von Harff, dated 1668. The original cruciform structure was built sometime...

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Marine geophysics

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earth geophysics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789048187010. Harff, J.; Meschede, M.; Petersen, S.; Thiede, J. (2014). Encyclopedia of marine...

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Origin of the Albanians

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written specimens of Albanian are Formula e pagëzimit (1462) and Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon (1496). The first Albanian text written with Greek letters...

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Bibliography of genocide studies

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Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. Routledge. Harff, B., & Gurr, T. R. (Eds.). (2018). Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies...

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Albanian language

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and published in 1915 by Nicolae Iorga. the Fjalori i Arnold von Harfit (Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon), a short list of Albanian phrases with German...

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Authoritarian socialism

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Century. Cornell University Press. pp. 75, 91, 275. ISBN 9780801472732. Harff, Barbara (1996). "Death by Government by R. J. Rummel". Journal of Interdisciplinary...

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