 An illustration of The Hyborian Age primarily based upon a map hand-drawn by Robert E. Howard in March 1932. The Hyborian Age is a phrase used by author Robert E. Howard to refer to a specific epoch in a fictional timeline used for many of the low fantasy tales of his artificial legendry; in particular, the stories of Conan the Cimmerian and Kull of Atlantis. Image File history File links Maphyboria. ...
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Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ...
Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ...
Low fantasy is a term not devised to describe a specific subgenre but to contrast specific works with high fantasy. ...
Artificial mythology (compare artificial language) is any complete, invented world with mythic features that, rather than arising out of centuries of oral tradition, are penned over a short period of time by a single author or small group of collaborators. ...
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A complete edition of Kulls stories from 1995 Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. ...
The word "Hyborian" is a transliterated contraction by Howard of the Ancient Greek "hyperborean," referring to a "[barbaric] dweller beyond the boreas (north wind)." [1] Howard stated that the geographical setting of Hyborian Age is that of our earth, but in a fictional period in the past, circa 14,000 BC to 10,000 BC. [2] Note: This article contains special characters. ...
In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece. ...
There was one person and one god known as Boreas in Greek mythology. ...
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The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. ...
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The reasons behind the invention of the Hyborian Age were perhaps commercial: Howard had an intense love for history and the historical dramas he penned for Oriental Stories magazine rank among his best; however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research work needed in maintaining historical accuracy. By conceiving a timeless setting — a vanished age — that was not ours but that may once have been ours and by carefully choosing names that resembled our past history, Howard avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition.
Although he is not represented in Howard's library, nor alluded to in his papers and correspondence, there seems a strong likelihood that Howard's conception of the Hyborian Age originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913), acting as a catalyst that enabled Howard to "coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan." [3] Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts to a highly-educated but not rich Bostonian merchant family. ...
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts to a highly-educated but not rich Bostonian merchant family. ...
In Howard's artificial legendry, the Hyborian Age is chronologically situated between several eras: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age (circa 20,000 BC) of Kull and the onslaught of the Picts (circa 9,500 BC). The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. ...
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The Hyborian Age was devised by author Robert E. Howard as the post-Atlantean setting of his Conan the Barbarian stories, designed to fit in with the previous and less known tales of Kull. The latter were also written by Howard and were set at the time of Atlantis. The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of "Hyperborea," literally "Super-North-Land." This was a mythical place far to the north that was not cold and where things did not age. Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ...
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A complete edition of Kulls stories from 1995 Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. ...
Atlantis (Greek: , Island of Atlas) is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato. ...
In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece. ...
Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age (most recently republished by Del Rey in The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian in 2003), is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists. Its setting is Europe and North Africa (with occasional references to Asia and other continents; e.g. Mayapan, coming from the Native American word Matapan, the name for the continent of America) – with some curious geological changes that were thought up prior to the ascendancy of the geologic theory of plate tectonics, though somewhat similar to what geologists theorize. They consider that during the Ice Age, Europe was quite different. The Mediterranean Sea formerly dried out intermittently, alternating with floods over the Straits of Gibraltar. Once there was a land-bridge across the English Channel between England and the Low Countries (but not across the Irish Sea) such that the Thames once flowed into a northern extension of the Rhine. And both the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea were once fresh-water lakes, the former (renamed the Ancylus Sea, after a fresh-water clam) covering much of the eastern half of what is now Sweden. The Hyborian Age is an essay on by Robert E. Howard on the Hyborian Age i. ...
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Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. ...
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Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from space. ...
Map of the English Channel Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
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Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...
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Ancylus lake is a name given by geologists to the body of fresh water that replaced the Yoldia sea after the latter had been severed from its saline intake across central Sweden by the isostatic rise of south Scandinavian landforms. ...
 A larger map of Robert E. Howard's Hyborian world. On a map Howard drew detailing it, his vision of the Mediterranean Sea is also dry. The Nile, which he re-named the River Styx, takes a westward turn at right angles just beyond the Nile Delta, plowing through the mountains so as to be able to reach the Straits of Gibraltar. Although his Black Sea is also dry, his Caspian Sea, which he renames the Vilayet Sea, extends northward to reach the Arctic Ocean, so as to provide a barrier to encapsulate the settings of his stories. Not only are his Baltic Sea and English Channel dry, but most of the North Sea and a vast region to the west, easily including Ireland, are too. Meanwhile, the west coast of Africa on his map lies beneath the sea. There are also a few islands, reminiscent of the Azores, but his stories are not about naval tactics. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 277 KB) Summary Map of Robert E. Howards Hyboria by Christophe Fernandez (Chrysagon) [1] who has made it freely available. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 277 KB) Summary Map of Robert E. Howards Hyboria by Christophe Fernandez (Chrysagon) [1] who has made it freely available. ...
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For other uses, see Styx River (disambiguation) River In Greek mythology, Styx ([river of] hate) is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades. ...
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Etymology In his fantasy setting of Hyboria, Howard created imaginary kingdoms to which he gave names from a variety of mythological and historical sources. Khitai is his version of China, lying far to the East, its name derived from an ancient Ural-Altaic word; Corinthia is his name for a Hellenistic civilization, a name derived from the city of Corinth and reminiscent of the imperial fiefdom of Carinthia in the Middle Ages. Howard imagines the Hyborian Picts to occupy a large area to the northwest. The probable intended correspondences are listed below; notice that the correspondences are sometimes very generalized, and are portrayed by ahistorical stereotypes. Cathay is the Anglicized version of Catai, the name that was given to northern China by Marco Polo (he referred to southern China as Manji). ...
The term Eastern world refers very broadly to the various cultures, social structures and philosophical systems of the East, namely Asia (including China, India, Japan, and surrounding regions). ...
The Ural-Altaic language family is a grouping of languages which was once widely accepted by linguists, but has since become contoversial. ...
Corinthia (Greek: ΚοÏινθία, KorinthÃa) is the area around the city of Corinth. ...
The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...
Corinth, or Korinth (Greek: ΚόÏινθος, Kórinthos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...
Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, often consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a form of allegiance, originally often to give him the means to fulfill his military duties when called upon. ...
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Table of Correspondences | Kingdom, Region, or Ethnic Group | Correspondence(s) | | Acheron | A fallen kingdom corresponding to the Roman Empire. Its territory covered Aquilonia, Nemedia, and Argos. In Greek mythology, Acheron was one of the four rivers of Hades; also the name of several rivers in ancient Greece, the largest (modern Gourla) being in Thesprotia. | | Afghulistan | Afghanistan. Afghulistan is the common name of the habitat of different tribes in the Himelian mountains. The name itself is a mixture of the historical names of Ghulistan (q.v.) and Afghanistan. | | Amazonia | Refers to various legends of African Amazons, or more specifically to the Dahomey Amazons. In classical legend, Amazonia was a nation of warrior women in Asia Minor and North Africa. The legend may be based upon the Sarmatians, a nomadic Iranian tribe of the Kuban, whose women were required to slay an enemy before they might marry.
NOTE: Amazonia is not an original Hyborian Age country and was created by L. Sprague de Camp.
NOTE 2: Robert E. Howard mentioned "the kingdoms of the Amazons" in his "Hyborian Age" essay, so it is an original Hyborian age country. | | Aquilonia | The Carolingian Empire, France in the Middle Ages, with occasional hints of England. The name derived from the ancient city of Aquilonia in Southern Italy, between modern Venosa and Benevento, although the name Aquilonia also resembles Aquitaine, a French region ruled by England for a long portion of the Middle Ages. Linguistically, the name is derived from the Latin aquilo, -onis, "north wind." | | Argos | Various seafaring traders of the Mediterranean Sea. The name comes from the Argo, ship of the Argonauts; or perhaps from the city of Argos, Peloponnesos, reputedly the oldest city in Greece, situated at the head of the Gulf of Argolis near modern Nafplion. Also hints of Italy in regards to the indigenous population's appearance, names and culture. Howard labels the populace of his Argos as "Argosseans," whereas the folk of the historical Argos were called "Argives." In Hyborian cartography, Argos takes on the shape of a "shoe" in its border boundaries as compared to Italy appearing as a "boot." | | Asgard | Sweden. (Ásgard is the home of the Æsir in Norse mythology). | | Border Kingdoms | German Baltic Sea coast | | Bossonian Marches | Wales, with an overlay of colonial-era North America.Possibly from Bossiney, a former parliamentary borough in Cornwall, South West England, which included Tintagel Castle, connected with the Matter of Britain. | | Brythunia | The continental homelands of the Angles and Saxons who invaded Great Britain, which is the origin of the name, though the civilization depicted is similar to that of medieval Poland, Lithuania, Latvia. Semantically, the name Brythunia is from the Welsh Brython, "Briton," derived from the same root as the Latin Brito, Britannia. | | Cimmeria | Celtic Great Britain/Scotland of ancient times. The name is based on Cimmeria, which was hypothesized to be the homeland of the Celts, based on the similarity to Cymru (the Welsh word for Wales), Cumbria, etc. Conan, a Cimmerian, has an Irish name, as do his parents, and the Cimmerian god Crom. | | Corinthia | Ancient Greece. From Corinth (Korinthos), a rich city in Classical Greece. Possibly suggested to Howard by the First Epistle to the Corinthians and Second Epistle to the Corinthians, both attributed to Paul of Tarsus and included in the New Testament. | | Darfar | Howard derived this name from the region of Darfur, Sudan, in north-central Africa. Darfur is an Arabic language name meaning "abode (dar) of the Fur," the dominant people of the area. In changing the name to Darfar, Howard unwittingly changed the Arabic meaning to "the abode of mice." The original Darfur is now the westernmost part of the Sudanese Republic. | | Gunderland | The Netherlands; Perhaps Germany. Probably from Gunther (Gundicar) , King of Burgundy or Gunderic, King of the Vandals. See Also: Gunderland, count of Hesbaye (?-778). | | Hyperborea | Finland, Russia and the Baltic countries (Hyperborea was a land in "outermost north" according to Greek historian Herodotus. Howard's Hyperborea is a northern Evil Empire, ruled by amoral wizards, perhaps akin to the perception of the 1930s Soviet Union) | | Hyrkania | Mongolia, Ukraine (Hyrkanians = Scythians) -> Hyrcania). In classical geography, a region southeast of the Caspian Sea or Hyrcanian Sea corresponding to modern Iranian Mazanderan + Asterabad. The name is Greek for the Old Persian Varkana, one of the Achaemenid Empire satrapies, and survives in the name of the river Gorgan. THe original meaning may have been "wolf land." In Iranian legend, Hyrkania was remarkable for its wizards and demons. | | Iranistan | An eastern land corresponding to modern Iran. Historically, the name of the country is derived from the Iran + the Persian istan, estan, "country." | | Kambuja/Kambulja | The original name of Cambodia, now Kampuchea. | | Keshan | The name comes from the "Kesh," the Egyptian name for Nubia. | | Khauran | The Kingdom of Jerusalem and possibly the associated Principality of Antioch, County of Edessa and County of Tripoli, collectively known as Outremer. The name perhaps derives from the Hauran region of Syria. | | Khitai | China. The name is derived from "Khitan," a medieval Tartar word for China, whence came the English word "Cathay." Marco Polo's Cathay (kăthā'). The term Cathay, a name for northern China used by medieval Europeans, derived from the word Khitan and/or Khitai, a Manchurian people who conquered northern China and founded the Liao dynasty (937–1125). [4] Also, the Kara-Khitai were a prominent tribe amongst Mongol steppe tribes. | | Khoraja | Possibly Khazaria. The name itself was inspired by the references of Sax Rohmer to the fictional city of Khorassa in The Mask of Fu Manchu novel. | | Koth | From the ancient Hittites; The Kothian capital of Khorshemish corresponds to the Hittite capital of Carchemish. Perhaps from The Sign of Koth in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft. There is a town of Koth in Gujarat, India, but the connection is doubtful. Howard also used the same name in his interplanetary novel Almuric. | | Kush | From the kingdom of Kush, Nubia, North Africa. | | Meru | Tibet. In Hindu mythology, Meru is the sacred mountain upon which the gods dwell. NOTE: Meru is not an original Hyborian Age country and was created by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. | | Nemedia | The Germanic Holy Roman Empire. Nemedia was the rival of Aquilonia (which corresponds to the Carolingian Empire/France), and depended on Aesir mercenaries for their defence (as the Byzantine Empire hired Vikings as the Varangian Guard). The name comes from Nemed, leader of colonists from Scythia to Ireland in Irish mythology; perhaps the name is also meant to allude to Nemea, home to the Nemean Lion of Greek mythology. | | Ophir | Ancient Ophir, a gold-mining region in the Old Testament, possibly on the shores of the Red Sea or Arabian Sea (e.g. western Arabia), though clearly Howard saw it as situated somewhere in Italy. | | Pictish Wilderness | Pictish Scotland, with an overlay of North America during the European colonization of the Americas, possibly even colonial-era New York. Howard bestows Algonquian languages names on his Picts. Note that the name "Pict" comes from the Latin language term for "painted one," which could be applicable to a number of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The historical termed Picts were a confederation of tribes in central and northern Scotland which bordered Roman Britain. | | Poitain | Aquitaine (?) (likely, although the name reminds of Poitou, a province Northeast of Aquitaine, but not mediterranean, and not properly part of Southern France). Its location in the south of Aquilonia could point to Provence, which is in Southern France. | | Punt | The Land of Punt on the Horn of Africa. A place with which the ancient Egyptians traded, probably Somaliland. | | Shem | Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia (cf. Semites, purportedly the sons of Shem). In the Bible, Noah's eldest son, the ancestor of the Hebrews, Arabs and Assyrians; hence, the modern "Semite" and Semitic languages (via Greek Sem), used properly to designate the family of languages spoken by these peoples. | | Stygia | Egypt. The name comes from Styx, a river of the Greek underworld in Greek mythology. In earlier times the territory of Stygia included Shem, Ophir, Corinthia, and part of Koth. | | Turan | The Old Persian name for Turkestan. A Turkish/Persian land, possibly referring to the Timurid Empire, the Sassanid Empire, or the Mughal Empire. The name derives from Turan, the areas of Eurasia occupied by speakers of Ural-Altaic languages. The names of the various Turanian cities (e.g. Aghrapur, Sultanapur, Shahpur) are often in Persian language. King Yezdigerd is named after Yazdegerd III, ruler of the Sassanid Empire. The name of King Yildiz means star in the Turkish language. The city of Khawarizm takes its name from Khwarezm, and Khorusun from Khorasan. In the Shahnameh by Firdausi, the main repository of ancient Persian legend, Feridun (Old Persian, Traetaona) divided the world among his three sons, giving Rum (Europe) to Silim, Turan to Tur, and Iran to Irij. Much of the Shahnameh is taken up with the efforts of the King Afrasiyab (Frangrasiyan) of Turan to conquer Iran, and his successive defeats by the Persian hero Rustam under various Iranian kings. | | Vanaheim | Norway and Denmark (Vanaheim is the home of the Vanir in Norse mythology) | | Vendhya | India (The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India). The name means "rent" or "ragged," i.e. having many passes. | | Zamora | The Roma people. The name comes from the city of Zamora, Zamora province, Castile-Leon, Spain, alluding to the Gitanos of Spain (see Zingara for discussion); or possibly it is based on the word "Roma." The name could also, in part, allude to Sonora, a region of Mexico that is "spider-haunted" like Zamora. Also hints of ancient Israel and Palestine. | | Zembabwei | The Munhumutapa Empire (Its capital city was the Great Zimbabwe). From Zimbabwe, a ruined fortified town in Rhodesia, first built around the 11th century and used as the capital of the Munhumutapa Empire. | | Zingara | Spain/Portugal. Iberian Peninsula as a whole. Zingara is also Italian for "Gipsy woman"; this may mean that Howard mixed up the source names of Zingara and Zamora, with Zingara originally meant to apply to the Roma kingdom, and Zamora to the Spanish kingdom. | | Other Geographic Features | | | The Himelian Mountains | The Himalayas. | | The Karpash Mountains | The Carpathian Mountains. | | The River Styx | The Nile. | | Vilayet Sea | The Caspian Sea. The name comes from vilayet, the term for administrative regions in the Ottoman Empire. | | Zaporoska River | The Don and/or the Volga. The river's name was probably influenced by Zaporizhian Sich, a settlement of the Cossacks in Zaporizhzhia (region). 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The Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centered on King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ...
White cliffs of Dover in England White cliffs of Rugen down the Baltic coast from Schleswig The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestor of Angeln, a modern district located in Schleswig, Germany. ...
Map showing the Saxons homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Weser, Eider, and Elbe Src: Freemans Historical Geographys. The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony...
Cimmeria is a fictional land of barbarians in antediluvian earth (cp. ...
A Celtic cross. ...
Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1. ...
The Cimmerians were an ancient people who lived in the south of modern-day Ukraine and Russia in the 8th and 7th century BC. Cimmeria was an ancient continental plate comprising present-day Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. ...
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Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056 Area - Total 20,779 km² (3rd in...
Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
A formal Irish Gaelic name consists of a given name and a surname, as in English. ...
In Celtic mythology, Crom Cruach was one of the chief gods of Ireland. ...
The ancient Greek world circa 550 BC Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history which lasted for around one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. ...
Corinth, or Korinth (Greek: ΚόÏινθος, Kórinthos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...
The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament. ...
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible New Testament. ...
Paul of Tarsus, also known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul (AD 3–14 — 62–69),[1] is widely considered to be central to the early development and spread of Christianity, particularly westward from Jerusalem. ...
John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ...
Darfur (Arabic دار Ùور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ...
The Arabic language ( ), or simply Arabic ( ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
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The following is a list of the Kings of Burgundy // Kings of the Burgundians Gebicca (late 4th century–407) Godemar Giselcar Gundicar (413–436) Aetius moves the Burgundians into Sapaudia (Upper Rhone Basin) Gunderic/Gundioc (436–473) opposed by Chilperic I (443–c. ...
Gunderic (379-428), King of the Vandals and Alans (407-428) led the Vandals, a Germanic tribe originally residing near the Oder River in modern Poland, to take part in the barbarian invasions of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century. ...
The Vandals sacking Rome, by Heinrich Leutemann (1824-1904) Vandal and Vandali redirect here. ...
Ermengarde, or Irmengarde de Hesbaye (born about 778) was the daughter of Count Ingerman, Count of Hesbania (Hesbaye, now in Liège, Belgium) and Hedwig of Bavaria. ...
The three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania The terms Baltic countries, Baltic Sea countries, Baltic states, and Balticum refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea. ...
In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece. ...
Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: , Herodotos Halikarnasseus) was a Dorian Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC - ca. ...
The term evil empire was applied to the former Soviet Union (USSR) by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, American conservatives, and other Americans, particularly hawks. ...
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Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by an Indo-Aryans known as the Scythians. ...
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The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume,[1] with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres (143,244 mi²) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres (18,761 mi³).[2] It is a landlocked endorheic body of water and lies between...
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Official language Latin, French, Italian, and other western languages; Greek and Arabic also widely spoken Capital Jerusalem, later Acre Constitution Various laws, so-called Assizes of Jerusalem The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 by the First Crusade. ...
The Principality of Antioch (in red) within the frame of the Crusader states. ...
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Cathay is the Anglicized version of Catai, the name that was given to northern China by Marco Polo (he referred to southern China as Manji). ...
The Khitan, in Chinese Qidan (契丹 Pinyin: QìdÄn), were an ethnic group which dominated much of Manchuria and was classified in Chinese history as one of the Tungus ethnic groups (æ±èƒ¡æ— dÅng hú zú). They established the Liao dynasty in 907, which was then conquered in 1125 by the...
Manchuria (Manchu: Manju; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; Simplified Chinese: 满洲; pinyin: MÇŽnzhÅu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ...
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The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ...
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. ...
An adventure/horror film released in 1932, featuring Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu and his capture of the sword and armour (including the mask) of Ghengis Khan. ...
Relief of Suppiluliuma II, last known king of the Hittite Empire The Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URU) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire was...
Carchemish (pr. ...
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. ...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ...
GujarÄt (GujarÄtÄ«: , IPA: , ) is the most industrialized state in the Republic of India with 19. ...
Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroë Kush or Cush was a civilization centered in the North African region of Nubia, located in what is today northern Sudan. ...
Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom. ...
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Hindu mythology is a term used by modern scholarship for a large body of Indian literature that details the lives and times of legendary personalities, deities and divine incarnations on earth interspersed with often large sections of philosophical and ethical discourse. ...
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The Holy Roman Empire and from the 16th century on also The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was a political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ...
Byzantine Empire (native Greek name: - Basileia tÅn RomaiÅn) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...
The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
The Varangians or Varyags (Russian: ВарÑги, Varyagi) were Scandinavians who travelled eastwards and southwards, mainly from the present areas of Denmark and Sweden. ...
In Irish mythology, Nemed (holy or privileged) son of Agnoman of Scythia was the leader of the third group of inhabitants of Ireland. ...
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The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. ...
Nemea is an ancient site near the head of the valley of the Nemea River in the Peloponnessus of Greece. ...
The Nemean Lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived in Nemea. ...
Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ...
Ophir (Hebrew ×וֹפִיר, Standard Hebrew Ofir, Tiberian Hebrew ʾÔp̄îr) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth. ...
NOTE: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh, but not Old Testament, because it does not recognize the New Testament as a continuation or completion of the Jewish bible. ...
Location of the Red Sea Image:Red Seaimage. ...
Map of the Arabian Sea. ...
Stirling Castle has stood for centuries atop a volcanic crag defending the lowest ford of the River Forth. ...
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Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
Pre-contact distribution of Algonquian languages The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (the two Algic languages that are not Algonquian are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ...
Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
A Hupa man, 1923 The term Indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before its European discovery in the late 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples. ...
A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone. ...
Principal sites in Roman Britain Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between 43 and 410. ...
Capital Bordeaux Land area¹ 41,309 km² Regional President Alain Rousset (PS) (since 1998) Population - Jan. ...
Coat of arms of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Plantagenet claimant to the county of Poitou, now favored as the coat of arms of Poitou by people in Poitou Poitou is a province of France. ...
This region consists of the southern part of France. ...
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The Land of Punt, which the Ancient Egyptians called Ta Netjeru, meaning Land of the Gods, was a fabled and exotic site in eastern Africa, which carried on extensive trade with Ancient Egypt, China and Arabia. ...
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Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ...
Motto: Justice, Peace, Freedom, Democracy and Success for All Anthem: dum ala khair, dum ala khair, Samo ku waar Samo ku waar Saamo ku waar Capital Hargeisa Largest city Hargeisa Official language(s) Somali, English, Arabic Government Republic - President Dahir Riyale Kahin Independence From Somalia - Declared May 18, 1991 - Recognition...
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Shem (ש×Öµ× renown; prosperity; name, Standard Hebrew Å em, Tiberian Hebrew Å Ä“m; Greek Σημ, SÄ“m) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. ...
14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ...
Stygia is a fictional land of swarthy inhabitants in The Hyborian Age, the antediluvian earth setting for Conan the Barbarian in the fantasy stories of Robert E. Howard. ...
In Greek mythology, Styx (Στυξ) is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades. ...
In Greek mythology, the underworld indicate the kingdom of deaths. ...
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Map of Turkestan (green) with borders of modern states in white Turkestan (Persian: ترکستان ) (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. ...
Flag of the Timurid Empire according to the Catalan Atlas c. ...
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The Mughal Empire at its greatest extent. ...
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The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Empire (Persian: Sasanian) is the name used for the fourth Iranian dynasty, and the second Persian Empire (226 - 651). ...
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Shahnameh Scenes from the Shahnameh carved into reliefs at Tus, where Ferdowsi is buried. ...
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Overview of Great Zimbabwe. ...
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The Empire of Great Zimbabwe also called Mwene Mutapa or Manhumutapa or Mhunhumutapa or Monomotapa or Mutapa or Mwanamutapa was a medieval kingdom (400-1629) located in Southern Africa covering mainly the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. ...
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Perspective view of the Himalayas and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...
Satellite image of the Carpathians Souvenir from Carpathian region (Poland) The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and northern Hungary. ...
The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl, Ancient Egyptian iteru) is a river in Africa, often regarded as the longest river on Earth, although some sources claim the Amazon in South America is longer. ...
The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume,[1] with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres (143,244 mi²) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres (18,761 mi³).[2] It is a landlocked endorheic body of water and lies between...
Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ...
The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia. ...
For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ...
Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (Ukrainian: ,Zaporozka Sich) original Slavonic name Zaporizhska Sich was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. ...
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Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhzhia; Russian: Запоро́жье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region of Ukraine. ...
The Dnieper River (also: Dnepr, Dniapro, or Dnipro) is a river (2,290 km length) which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. ...
See also Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Conan the Barbarian Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. ...
A complete edition of Kulls stories from 1995 Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. ...
Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ...
References - ^ Harold Lamb, The March of the Barbarians; 1940, Country Life Press, ASIN: B000GQ81MM.
- ^ Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age essay adaptated by Roy Thomas and Walt Simonson.
- ^ Patrice Louinet. Hyborian Genesis: Part 1, page 434, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian; 2003, Del Rey.
- ^ Encyclopedia.com: Cathay / Khitai
Roy Thomas (born November 22, 1940, Missouri, United States) is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. ...
Star Slammers graphic novel (1983) Walter or, usually, Walt Simonson (born September 2, 1946) is a comic book writer and artist. ...
Notes Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ...
The Hyborian Age is an essay on by Robert E. Howard on the Hyborian Age i. ...
L. Sprague de Camp from the cover of Time and Chance: an Autobiography, Donald M. Grant, 1996 Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907, New York City – November 6, 2000, Plano, Texas) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ...
Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. ...
The Return of Conan by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp, Gnome Press, 1957 Björn Emil Oscar Nyberg, born September 11, 1929, is an Swedish fantasy author best known for his additions to the series of Conan stories begun by Robert E. Howard. ...
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