The Pocket Guide to World History

Cyprus Revolt. 1925-31. For union with Greece. [Read more ...]

Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654. [Read more ...]

Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism. [Read more ...]

Cyril, St. c444. Patriarch of Alexandria. Deported Nestor. Lynched Hypatia. Launched pogroms against Jews. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon. [Read more ...]

Cyril and Methodius, Sts. -c869/885. Apostles of Slavs. Translated liturgy, invented Cyrillic alphabet. [Read more ...]

Cyrillic. 9C Alphabet of Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian. [Read more ...]

Cyrus. -529BC. Founded Persian Empire 550-. Defeated Babylonia 539BC. Freed Jews. [Read more ...]

Cyrus the Younger. -401BC. Conspired vs Artaxerxes. Killed at Cunaxa. [Read more ...]

Czar. (Tsar) 1547-1918. Emperor of Russia. [Read more ...]

Czech Republic. Bohemia + Moravia. 1918 Czechoslovakia. 1993 Independent. [Read more ...]

Czechoslovakia. 1918 Formed in breakup of Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1920 Little Entente. 1938 -Sudetenland. 1939-45 German occupation. 1949 People’s Democratic Republic. 1968 Prague Spring. 1991 Republic. 1993 Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia. [Read more ...]

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