Saturday, February 28, 2009
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROUN-RAMSEY, Marqui of- 1812-1860. railroads blah blah blah. 4 pages. crimea india blah blah.
DALLING+ BULLWER, Baron- 1801-1872. william henry LYTTON EARLE BULLWER, better known during the chief part of his long + brilliant career in diplomacy, politics + literature, as sir henry bulwer. b. london. father's side vikings. mother's side tudors + plantagenets. wife elizabeth barbara lytton. heiress. 3 sons. dad dies young and mother, the heiress set to the 3's education. published book of verses in 1822. bio reads like-'it was a dark and storm night'. military blah blah "one of the most sagacious + genial delineators of the generic frenchman". BLAH BLAH mostly diplomacy + books published .
DALMATIA- a crownland of the austrian empire along the adriatic, bounded by the turkish croatia, herzogovinia, + montenegro. blah blah details.
history- in 180 bc the tribe of dalmatians, declared independence of gentius, the king of Illyria. set up capital delminium/dalminium. in 156 the dalmatians 1st attacked by romans + compelled to pay tribute, but not til Augustus made a roman province. a formidable revolt + suppressed by tiberius in 9 ad. fully romanized + 'honor' of producing emperor diocletian, who retired after resigning the purple, to salona, the new capital. built many buildings there. after the fall of rome, held by odoacer, theodoric, + justinian. 7th c received the dominant element of slavs, who were invited by heraclius. 9th C- croatian influence, but in the 10th c, venice extended power to D + 1018ish, the doge took the title of duke of d. 11th c fight between venice + croatia, meanwhile, the ports of zara, tran, ragusa, etc had their own history-free cities. properous thru commerce + industry. sided w/ venice, but were alienated + in 1357-8 opened gates to louis of hungary, but V still clung. 1797 treaty D a austrian dominion. except for napoleon 1805-1814, austrian, but insurrection in 1869.
DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROUN-RAMSEY, Marqui of- 1812-1860. railroads blah blah blah. 4 pages. crimea india blah blah.
DALLING+ BULLWER, Baron- 1801-1872. william henry LYTTON EARLE BULLWER, better known during the chief part of his long + brilliant career in diplomacy, politics + literature, as sir henry bulwer. b. london. father's side vikings. mother's side tudors + plantagenets. wife elizabeth barbara lytton. heiress. 3 sons. dad dies young and mother, the heiress set to the 3's education. published book of verses in 1822. bio reads like-'it was a dark and storm night'. military blah blah "one of the most sagacious + genial delineators of the generic frenchman". BLAH BLAH mostly diplomacy + books published .
DALMATIA- a crownland of the austrian empire along the adriatic, bounded by the turkish croatia, herzogovinia, + montenegro. blah blah details.
history- in 180 bc the tribe of dalmatians, declared independence of gentius, the king of Illyria. set up capital delminium/dalminium. in 156 the dalmatians 1st attacked by romans + compelled to pay tribute, but not til Augustus made a roman province. a formidable revolt + suppressed by tiberius in 9 ad. fully romanized + 'honor' of producing emperor diocletian, who retired after resigning the purple, to salona, the new capital. built many buildings there. after the fall of rome, held by odoacer, theodoric, + justinian. 7th c received the dominant element of slavs, who were invited by heraclius. 9th C- croatian influence, but in the 10th c, venice extended power to D + 1018ish, the doge took the title of duke of d. 11th c fight between venice + croatia, meanwhile, the ports of zara, tran, ragusa, etc had their own history-free cities. properous thru commerce + industry. sided w/ venice, but were alienated + in 1357-8 opened gates to louis of hungary, but V still clung. 1797 treaty D a austrian dominion. except for napoleon 1805-1814, austrian, but insurrection in 1869.
