Lipova

City · 1315 CE · in Europe

Capital of Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1541–1542).

Manisa (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Beylik of Saruhan (1314–1412).
Urasoe (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Chüzan (1314–1428).
Câmpulung (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Principality of Wallachia (1314–1858).
Nakijin (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Hokuzan (1314–1416).
Nallur (c. 1314 CE): Capital of Jaffna kingdom (1314–1594).
Carpentras (c. 1320 CE): Capital of Comtat Venaissin (1320–1790).
Kastamonu (c. 1309 CE): Capital of Beylik of Sinop (1309–1332), Beylik of Isfendiyar (1309–1398).
Trakai (c. 1321 CE): Capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1321–1323).
Visegrád (c. 1323 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Hungary (1323–1408).
Kütahya (c. 1305 CE): Capital of Germiyanids (1305–1429).

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Thomas Aquinas (1225 CE – 1274 CE): Dominican friar and theologian whose Summa Theologica synthesised Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine.
Dante Alighieri (1265 CE – 1321 CE): Florentine poet whose Divine Comedy, written in the Tuscan vernacular, is a masterpiece of world literature and helped establish the Italian language.
Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel frescoes (1305 CE): Giotto covered the walls of a Padua chapel with the lives of the Virgin and Christ under a starry blue vault. His solid, feeling figures broke with Byzantine stiffness and began the road to the Renaissance.
Hanseatic League (1356 CE): Confederation of merchant guilds and market towns that dominated Baltic and North Sea trade; its first general diet met in Lübeck in 1356.
Hanseatic trade route (1356–1669 CE): The Hanseatic League of north German merchant towns, led by Lübeck, dominated Baltic and North Sea trade from London and Bruges to Novgorod, exchanging furs, wax, grain, fish and timber for cloth and salt.
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