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Homo erectus georgicus, which lived roughly 1.8 million years ago in Georgia, is the earliest hominid to be discovered in Europe. [2] The earliest appearance of anatomically modern people in Europe has been dated to 45,000 BC, referred to as the Early European modern humans.
Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century BC. [2] Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. [3] The earliest vase-painting securely identifiable as Europa dates from the mid-7th century BC. [4]
Finnish women enjoy a "high degree of equality" and "traditional courtesy" among men. [17] In 1906, the women of Finland became the first women in Europe to be granted the right to vote. [18] There are many women in Finland who hold prominent positions in Finnish society, in the academics, in the field of business, [18] and in the government of ...
The principal river there – Evros (today's Maritsa) – flows through the fertile valleys of Thrace, [17] which itself was also called Europe, before the term meant the continent. [18] In classical Greek mythology, Europa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē) was a Phoenician princess.
Europa regina in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia". Europa regina, Latin for "Queen Europe", is the map-like depiction of the European continent as a queen. [1] [2] Made popular in the 16th century, the map shows Europe as a young and graceful woman wearing imperial regalia. The Iberian Peninsula (Hispania) is the head, wearing a hoop crown.
The Venus figurines – sculptures of pregnant women with exaggerated breasts and thighs – were used as evidence of the presence of the "Negroid race" in Palaeolithic Europe, because they were interpreted as having been based on real women with steatopygia (a condition which causes thicker thighs, common in the women of the San people of ...
Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.
Europa is a feminine name, the name of a nymph in Hesiod, and in a legend first related by Herodotus, the name of a Phoenician noble-woman abducted by Greeks (in Herodotus' opinion, Cretans). The classical legend of Europa being abducted not by Greek pirates but by Zeus in the shape of a bull is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. According to the ...