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Khazar Khaganate 618–1048; ... shoe making, saddle making, bow making, and clothes making. ... which was written by Italian merchants and German missionaries ...
In early 2009 the 51 German branches of the almost-bankrupt shoe store chain Salamander Schuhe were acquired. [6] Prior to that, Klauser had its own 80 outlets and with the help of 1200 employees made a turnover of around €110 million (ca US$143 million). [ 6 ]
The Shoes on the Danube Bank (Hungarian: Cipők a Duna-parton) is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary.Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer [] to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.
Here the museum shows the impact of the Second World War on the shoe industry and types of shoes made. The visitor is led through a typical 1960s flat and they can see, in a completely equipped shoe salon, how the fit of new shoes was tested with a fluoroscope using X-rays. Also on the first floor is the largest pair of shoes in the world: a ...
The Hessian boot (/ ˈ h ɛ s i ə n /; from Hesse in Germany) is a style of light riding boot that became popular from the beginning of the 19th century. [1] History ...
The Caucasian Alans were the ancestors of the modern Ossetians, whose ethnonym derives from the name Ās (very probably the ancient Aorsi; al-Ma'sudi mentions al-Arsiyya as guards among the Khazars, and the Rus' called the Alans Yasi), a sister tribe of the Alans.
The Khazar alliance with the Byzantine empire began to collapse in the early 10th century. Byzantine and Khazar forces may have clashed in the Crimea, and by the 940s emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was speculating in De Administrando Imperio about ways in which the Khazars could be isolated and attacked. The Byzantines during the same ...
Lukas Meindl GmbH & Co.KG, most commonly known as Meindl, is a German footwear manufacturer located in Kirchanschöring, Bavaria, known for its hiking boots for hiking and hillwalking. The company was founded in 1683 by Petrus Meindl.