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  2. Casa Denegrida de Moctezuma - Wikipedia

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    The Casa Denegrida de Moctezuma (The Black House of Moctezuma) was part of the royal palace and chambers of Tenochtitlan's ninth tlatoani Moctezuma II. The Black House, or more accurately the black room, was a windowless room fully painted in black where Moctezuma would meditate. [1] [2] The floor was made of large irregular black basalt slabs ...

  3. Khara-Khoto - Wikipedia

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    Khara-Khoto (Chinese: 哈拉浩特; Mongolian: Хар хот (Khar Khot); 'black city'), [1] also known as Heishuicheng or Heishui City (Chinese: 黑水城), is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Tangut-led Western ...

  4. Black Stone - Wikipedia

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    The Black Stone is seen through a portal in the Kaaba. The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

  5. Al-Hajar al-Aswad - Wikipedia

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    'The Black Stone') is a Syrian city just 4 km (2 mi) south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. [ 2 ] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Hajar al-Aswad had a population of 84,948 in the 2004 census, making it the 13th largest city per geographical entity in Syria.

  6. List of generation IV Pokémon - Wikipedia

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    It is based on Clione Limacina, and its English name is a portmanteau of the last syllable of Manaphy and the word Clione. Manaphy Manafi (マナフィ) [60] Water No evolution Manaphy is other member of the Sea Guardian Duo along with Phione. Manaphy was the last Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex before the Platinum expansion. This Mythical ...

  7. Blackstone, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Court House and Blacks & Whites Area of Nottoway County, Virginia, 1864. The settlement was founded as the village of "Blacks and Whites", so named after two tavern keepers, before the Revolutionary War. It was renamed Bellefonte on May 11, 1875, and back to Blacks and Whites on August 4, 1882.

  8. Somali architecture - Wikipedia

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    Somali architecture is the engineering and designing of multiple different construction types such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and tombs during the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Somalia and other regions inhabited by Somalis, as well as the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in ...

  9. Borsippa - Wikipedia

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    Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BA KI or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq built on both sides of a lake about 17.7 km (11.0 mi) southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates.