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Articles in Great Events in Religion. An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History<\/em>. Edited by Florin Curta and Andrew Holt. Vol. 1, pp. 6-12,18-21, 39-40, 55-56, 80-84, 65-96, 118-119, 173-177, 182, 183-184, 186-188,197-198, 218-220, 232-234, 239-240,245-248, 270-272; vol. 2, pp. 335-337, 373, 394-397, 407-409, 432-433, 460-463, 474-475, 479-481, 483-485, 488-490, 493-497, 655-659; vol. 3, pp. 677-679, 787-789, 950-952. Santa Barbara\/Denver: ABC-Clio, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • \u201cEstablishment of G\u00f6bekli Tepe, the oldest human-made place of worship yet discovered (10th<\/sup>\u00a0millennium BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cDiscovery of \u00c7atal H\u00f6y\u00fck, Turkey (major cult site of the Neolithic period, 7500-5700 BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFirst Temple at Eridu (ca. 4500-3600 BC)\u201d; \u201cReign of Naram-Sin of Akkad (2254-2218 BC), the first ruler to think of himself as god\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cKing Ur-Nammu\u2019s building of the Great Ziggurat in Ur in honor of Nanna\/Sin (21st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cAdad-Nirari I, king of Assyria, orders inscriptions in which he claims gods called him to war\u2014first use of religion to justify war (early 13th<\/sup>\u00a0century BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cBuilding of the Etemenanki ziggurat in honor of Marduk in Babylon (6th<\/sup>\u00a0century BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cBeginning of the cult of the soldiers fallen at Marathon\u201d; \u201cBuilding of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia (mid-5th<\/sup>\u00a0century BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cRitual purification of the island of Delos (425 BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cBeginning of the cult of Antigonos I Monophtalmos and Demetrios I Poliorcetes honored as saviors of Athens (307 BC)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cJulius Caesar declared\u00a0pontifex maximus<\/em>\u00a0(63 BC)\u201d; \u201cEstablishment of the Coptic Church (2nd<\/sup>-13th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries AD)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFirst dedication to Sol Invictus in Rome (AD 158)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cEmperor Commodus proclaimed\u00a0Romanus Hercules<\/em>\u00a0(AD 192)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cEphesus and Sardis competing to become neocorates (imperial cult centers, 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cEmperor Elagabalus establishes his own cult in Rome as Sol Invictus (AD 218-222)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cPachomius and the beginnings of cenobitic monasticism (ca. AD 320-347)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cUlfila\u2019s mission to the Goths (AD 340s)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cTheodosius I declares Nicene Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire (AD 380)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFrumentius and the conversion of Ethiopia to Christianity (4th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cChandragupta II and the rise of Vaishnavism (ca. AD 375-413)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cMar Babai and the growth of Nestorian Christianity in Persia (7th<\/sup>\u00a0century)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cBattle of Karbala (680)\u201d; \u201cIconoclasm Controversy (early 8th<\/sup>\u00a0century)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cDonation of Constantine (ca. 750)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cAnskar\u2019s mission to the Swedes (830-860)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFoundation of the Rila Monastery (ca. 930)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cWenceslas murdered by his brother Boleslav (935)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cRevolt of the Liutizi (983)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cSummit in Gniezno and emperor Otto III\u2019s pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Adalbert (1000)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cKing Stephen and the conversion of Hungary\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFoundation of the Sazava Abbey (1032)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cAbdallah ibn Yasin starts the Almoravid movement and dynasty (1050s)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cFoundation of the Monastery of the Caves near Kiev (11th<\/sup>\u00a0century)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cCouncil of Florence (1439)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cEstablishment of the Greek-Orthodox patriarch by Mehmet II (1454)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cSynod of Jerusalem (1672)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cRise of liberation theology (20th<\/sup>\u00a0century)\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    Article \u201cArchaeology: the Balkans,\u201d in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages<\/em>. Edited by Robert E. Bjork. Vol. 1, pp. 93-96. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Articles \u201cAntes, people (history and archaeology),\u201d \u201cBulgars, people (location, archaeology, and early history),\u201d \u201cSclavenes, people (<\/u>history and archaeology),\u201d and \u201cMagyars, people (location, archaeology, and early history).\u201d In International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages \u2013 Online. A Supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters \u2013 Online<\/em>. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005 (Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-828","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}