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 Translation for 'universal history' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a universal history | universal histories
hist.
maailmanhistoria {noun}
universal history
Partial Matches
fys.
yleinen kaasuvakio {noun} <R>
universal gas constant <R>
hist.
historia {noun}
history
ammatithist.koulutus
historianopettaja {noun} [myös: historian opettaja]
history teacher
taidetiede
taidehistoria {noun}
art history
hist.
maailmanhistoria {noun}
world history
mediahistoria {noun}media history
taide
taidehistoria {noun}
history of art
koulutus
hissa {noun} [koul. slangi]
history [school subject]
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  • Bodin was a polymath, concerned with universal history which he approached as a jurist.
  • In 1933, Borges gained an editorial appointment at "Revista Multicolor de los Sábados" (the literary supplement of the Buenos Aires newspaper "Crítica"), where he first published the pieces collected as "Historia universal de la infamia" ("A Universal History of Infamy") in 1935.
  • His "Muqaddimah" was also the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history.
  • which purports to be a universal history from the creation of the world to 1082 and which employed a dual numbering scheme on the misunderstanding that the Christian era computed by Dionysius Exiguus had been mistaken by 22 years.
  • "A Universal History of the United States of America"/ C.B. Taylor. Ezra Strong: Springfield, MA 1830.

  • Emperor Yingzong of Song ordered Sima Guang and other scholars to begin compiling this universal history of China in 1065, and they presented it to his successor Shenzong in 1084.
  • In his universal history "Bibliotheca historica", Diodorus Siculus in the 1st century BC celebrated Penthesilea as the last Amazon to win renown for valour in war.
  • ... 240) gave March 25 as the day of creation and of the conception of Jesus in his universal history.
  • His work "Discours sur l'histoire universelle" ("Discourse on Universal History" 1681) has been regarded by many Catholics as an actualization or new version of the "City of God" of St.
  • The use of the modern "anno domini" system of dating was largely confined to chroniclers of universal history, such as the Venerable Bede.

  • He was professor of ancient literature and universal history at Leiden from 1822 to 1849, when he resigned his post and retired to Hilversum, where he died on 28 March 1865.
  • Written in the first century BC, these books appear to be based heavily (possibly entirely) upon an earlier universal history by Ephorus, written in the century after the war, which is now lost.
  • An expert on "tafsir" (Quranic exegesis) and "fiqh" (jurisprudence), he wrote several books, including a fourteen-volume universal history titled Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya.
  • The identification with Coptus is recorded in Osborne's "A Universal History From The Earliest Account of Time", where it is remarked that many suppose the name to have originated from Caphtor.
  • He is known for writing the monumental universal history "Bibliotheca historica", in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact, [...] between 60 and 30 BC.

  • The "Liber Memorialis" is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary&mdash;a kind of index&mdash;of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan.
  • Ephorus of Cyme ([...]; [...] , "Ephoros ho Kymaios"; c. 400 [...] 330 BC) was an ancient Greek historian known for his universal history.
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