Tag: Constantine
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07 Works, Today, June 26th, is Saints John and Paul’s day, their story in Paintings #177
John and Paul are saints who lived during the fourth century in the Roman Empire. They were martyred at Rome on 26 June, in their own home. After a successful career of soldiering, Constantine the Great, entrusted Saints John and Paul, who were eunuchs, with the protection of Constantia; his eldest daughter from his second…
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Théodore Chassériau, Ali-Ben-Hamet 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 73
The Haraktas or Haractas are a group of Berber-speaking tribes living in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi and Batna. During the Ottoman period , the tribe was the largest tribe in eastern Algeria. Constantine passed under Arab-Muslim administration around the year 700, and saw its population gradually convert to Islam. France embarked on the conquest of…
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