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unusual facts about medieval times


Madonie Regional Natural Park

As well as being a nature reserve, the park is an inhabited area with dozens of little villages and small towns many of which trace their origins to medieval times.


Cloth Fair

Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell material during the Bartholomew Fair.

The Miserable Mill

When Lemony Snicket refers having to fight with a TV repairman, it might be a reference to The Cable Guy which contains a scene in which the characters played by Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick go to a restaurant named "Medieval Times" and are chosen to fight with swords.


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Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

In early medieval times, the site was occupied by a Visigoth fortress.

Amona, Goa

These warriors in medieval times were a part of the Maratha clans.

Angot

Angot was an Ethiopian province of medieval times, which ceased to exist following the Oromo migrations.

Arthurlie

The lands of Arthurlie were held in medieval times by the Stewart family, a branch of the noble Stewarts of Darnley.

Barnet

High Barnet is home to an Odeon cinema, the Barnet Museum, the All Saints Art Centre, the traditional annual Barnet Fair, which was chartered in Medieval times, the Ravenscroft local park and Barnet recreational park, a now disused well that was frequented by, among others, Samuel Pepys, and many restaurants and public houses.

Cathal

As is obvious from the list below, the name was in medieval times most popular in Ireland's two western provinces, Munster and Connacht.

Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna

In medieval times these were thought to be fossilized adders' tongues, able to detect poisoned food.

Curlew River

The libretto is by William Plomer, who translated the setting of the original into a Christian parable, set in early medieval times near the fictional Curlew River, in the fenlands of East Anglia.

Down Ampney

Down Ampney was notable in medieval times as one of the principal seats of the powerful Hungerford family (their principal seat was at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset) and a number of elaborate family monuments survive in the village church.

Earl of Winchester

In medieval times earldoms closely associated with counties, and the Earls of Winchester were sometimes referred to as Earls of Southampton (for Winchester is the county seat of Hampshire, which in those days was known as County Southampton or Southamptonshire).

Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Already in medieval times the Chancellor had political power like Willigis of Mainz (Archchancellor 975–1011, regent for Otto III 991–994) or Rainald von Dassel (Chancellor 1156–1162 and 1166–1167) under Frederick I.

Foul Facts

The book begins at pirates, then goes through Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Medieval Times, Aztecs, Tudors, the French Revolution, Victorians, and World War II (WWII) spies.

Free House

Freihaus (German for "free house"), in medieval times, a house within the town walls but legally outside the town's jurisdiction

Het Steen

It depicts the giant Lange Wapper who used to terrorise the inhabitants of the city in medieval times.

Hovawart

The breed originated in the Black Forest region and was first described in text and paintings in medieval times.

Lady Well

It lay just outside the city wall and Drygate Port in medieval times and will have refreshed Romans travelling the old Carntyne Highway east-west between forts along the Antonine Wall.

Lauriston Castle

A Lauriston Castle stood on this site in medieval times but was almost totally destroyed in the raids on Edinburgh in 1544 by the earl of Hertford.

Nigel Terry

His main US and British television appearances include Covington Cross, a series set in medieval times.

Oignies Abbey

A statue of the Virgin from medieval times is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Pitigliano

Later, in medieval times were extended by the Aldobrandeschi and further fortified by the Orsini in the Renaissance period, when he commissioned the Florentine architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to give a more impressive structure of the entire defensive perimeter.

Pitrags

Was founded in Medieval times by several brothers who arrived from Saaremaa and settled here.

Poultry Compter

Poultry Compter (also sometimes known as Poultry Counter) was a small compter, or prison, run by a Sheriff of the City of London from medieval times until 1815.

Reach, Cambridgeshire

In medieval times, Reach was a hamlet sitting on the border of the parishes of Burwell and Swaffham Prior.

Reichsstraße

Imperial road, or Reichsstraße, a major European route in medieval times that was under the imperial or royal ban

River Stour, Kent

The lower part of the river is tidal; its original mouth was on the Wantsum Channel, an important sea route in medieval times.

River Tib

During the Roman period, the Tib marked the boundary of the vicus or settlement of Mamucium; the river continued to mark Manchester's boundary until medieval times, as well as providing drinking water.

Sveti Martin na Muri

This place was important in medieval times and had several gothic churches and old castles such as Gradiščak and Lapšina.

Uissigheim

In medieval times it was a village home to the Uissigheim family, of whom the most infamous member was the highwayman and persecutor of the Jews Arnold von Uissigheim (executed 1336).

Velden am Wörther See

In medieval times it belonged to the estates of the Hohenwart castle, seat of the Counts of Celje, the Counts of Ortenburg, the Knightly Order of Saint George in Millstatt and finally the Austrian House of Habsburg.

Wealden cloth industry

Cloth-making was, apart from iron-making, the other large-scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times.

Welf pudding

Welf pudding gets its name from the colours of the House of Welf (also known as the House of Guelph), a German aristocratic family that ruled the Principality of Lüneburg in medieval times.

York Racecourse

It is situated on an expanse of ground which has been known since pre-medieval times as the Knavesmire, from the Anglo-Saxon "knave" meaning a man of low standing, and "mire" meaning a swampy pasture for cattle.