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In 1179 the first lords, Retourtour and Briand, built a tower and ramparts to defend against invaders. The medieval village is built on the site of the old castle. During the Wars of religion the village was destroyed in 1622 by order of Louis XIII and the fortifications of Beauchastel were levelled; the ramparts and the defence towers ...
The settlement was initially constructed on the Baou, a chalk hill which overlooks the Étang de Berre, a site that was easy to defend and from which the surrounding region could be surveyed. In 1564, the castle was sufficiently comfortable to accommodate the king Charles IX and the regent Catherine de' Medici .
Old town. Originally Ucetia or Eutica in Latin, Uzès was a small Gallo-Roman oppidum, or administrative settlement. The town lies at the source of the Alzon river, at Fontaine d'Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century AD, to supply water to the city of Nîmes, 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.
Stillwater is a village in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,754 at the 2020 census. There is a hamlet in Minerva, Essex County with the same name, which has nothing to do with this village. The Village of Stillwater is in the southeastern part of the Town of Stillwater, north of the City of Mechanicville.
In January 1941 the U.S. War Department issued orders to consider potential sites for a new U.S. Army training center in Indiana.After the Hurd Engineering Company surveyed an estimated 50,000 acres (200 km 2), an area was selected for the camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Indianapolis, 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh.
Taitung Hongye Village Taitung Cycas Nature Reserve 3.17 km 2, est. 1986; Wazihwei Nature Reserve 0.14 km 2, est. 1994; Wushanding Mud Volcano Nature Reserve 0.04 km 2, est. 1992; Wushihbi Coastal Nature Reserve 3.54 km 2, est. 1994; Xuhai-Guanyinbi Nature Reserve 8.38 km 2, est. 2012; Yuanyang Lake Nature Reserve 3.71 km 2, est. 1986
History is the systematic study of the past. As an academic discipline, it analyzes and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened, focusing primarily on the human past.
The Mastabat al-Fir'aun (Arabic: مصطبة الفرعون Romanised: Maṣṭabat al-Firʿawn), also referred to in Egyptological literature as the Mastaba el-Faraun, Mastabat el-Faraun or Mastabat Faraun, and meaning "Bench of the Pharaoh") is the grave monument of the ancient Egyptian king Shepseskaf (reign c. 2510–2503 BC), the last king of the Fourth Dynasty documented to date.