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unusual facts about seventh century



Æthelwine of Sceldeforde

Æthelwine of Sceldeforde was a seventh century Catholic Saint, who lived in Anglo-Saxon England.


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Dalla Hill

In the seventh century, the hill was the site of a community that engaged in iron-working; it is unknown whether these people were Hausa, or speakers of Niger–Congo languages.

De laude Pampilone epistola

It was probably composed in the seventh century, when the Visigoths ruled most of Hispania, but Pamplona itself may have been held by the Franks.

Eadbald of Kent

Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and may be symbolic of religious activity involving the Germanic deity Woden.

Japanese sculpture

Earliest examples of Buddhist art may be seen in accumulated splendor at the seventh century Horyuji temple in Nara, whose buildings themselves, set in a prescribed pattern with main hall, belfy, pagodas, and other buildings enclosed within an encircling roofed corridor, retain an aura of the ancient era, together with the countless art treasures preserved within their halls.

Lazurite

It has been used as a pigment in painting and cloth dyeing since at least the sixth or seventh century CE.

Okhta

The Okhta Trne church at Mokhrenes, Nagorno-Karabakh, supposed to be dating from the fifth to seventh century

Pellitus

Pellitus was a Spanish astrologer of the seventh century, who worked for Edwin of Northumbria, in the account given by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Châlons

Among its celebrated abbeys the diocese counted those of St. Memmius, founded in the fifth century by Alpinus; Toussaints, founded in the eleventh century; Montier-en-Der, founded in the seventh century by St. Bereharius, a monk from Luxeuil; Saint-Pierre au Mont, founded during the same period.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Viterbo

They suffered not far from the city, to which their relics were translated in the seventh century by Bishop Maurus, the first bishop known (649).

Saint-Ursanne

Its name refers to Saint Ursicinus, a seventh-century monk who built a monastery here.

Starets

The Greek tradition has a long unbroken history of elders and disciples, such as Sophronius and John Moschos in the seventh century, Symeon the Elder and Symeon the New Theologian in the eleventh century, and contemporary charismatic gerontes such as Porphyrios and Paisios.

Wąwolnica, Lublin Voivodeship

According to legend, around the seventh century AD (some sources mention that it was probably 721) Prince Krak came from Kraków.

Wonastow

Wonastow has a twelfth-century church dedicated to St. Wonnow or Saint Winwaloe, believed to have been built on a seventh-century religious site.