As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages and is sometimes called the Age of the Cistercians. In Song dynasty China an invasion by Jurchens caused a political schism of north and south. The Khmer Empire of Cambodia flourished during this century, while the Fatimids of Egypt were overtaken by the Ayyubid dynasty.
Lam, a Cambodian tour guide who speaks Mandarin, said that one of the most popular sites among Chinese tourists is the Bayon temple, built at the end of the 12th century.
A 12th to 13th-century lacquered leather chest in the Brooklyn Museum in New York, for instance, features design motifs influenced by SilkRoad exchanges between the 6th and 8th centuries.
The grottoes were carved into cliffs in the 5th century, and Angkor Wat sprang up in the 12th century ... rice dou — echo ancient Chinese terms, their linguistic parallels taking in centuries of exchange.
Once in Otterberg, we intended to take a break exploring its 12th-century Abteikirche, the second-largest church in the Pfalz region after the cathedral in Speyer ... The well-preserved 12th century abbey in Otterberg, Germany, has a length of 262 feet.
The museum will offer visitors a glimpse into the built heritage bequeathed by the Kalyani Chalukyas who ruled parts of central Karnataka and the Deccan between the 10th and the 12th centuries CE ....
Nagpur... 'Its iconography suggests it may belong to the Hoysala dynasty period from Karnataka around the 12th to 13th century CE ... The Vithal-Rukmini Temple was built during the Bhonsle period in the 18th century in the complex ... Location ... Location.
The village is flint cottage perfection and the pub, said to date from the 12th century, is wonderfully cosy with local Harvey’s on tap ... Bay, this pub began life in the 12th century as a monastery.
The earliest available text in Arabic-Malayalam was from the 17th century \u2014 a panegyric Mu\u1e25y al-D\u012bn M\u0101la on a 12th century Sufi saint, written by Q\u0101\u1e0d\u012b Muhammad of Calicut in 1607.
Photo. Wikimedia Commons...Islam was introduced to the islands in the 12th century, and they passed through colonial hands over the last 600 years, first with the Portuguese in the 1500s, then through the Dutch in the 1600s and British in the 1700s ... .
He remembers how each year, all the relatives would gather here to celebrate Easter... This Easter, the Ayads found no candles, hymns, or sweet pastries ... The destroyed annexe of the 12th-century Greek Orthodox Church of St Porphyrios (Porphyrius) ... ....
High school... Job ... 11, 2023, after running to a shelter in his yeshiva apartment during a rocket alert, he attended a lesson in his night class about Maimonides, the 12th-century rabbi and philosopher who had spent much of his life fleeing persecution.
In the early 12th century BC, groups probably originating in the Aegean established trading posts on the coastal plaine ... She added that it was active until the 12th century AD ... In the 4th century AD, ...
in the 12th century it was served at the wedding of Richard the Lionheart and declared the “wine of kings and the king of wines”; in the 13th century it won a wine tasting competition held by the king ...
Qutbuddin Aibak, the founder of Delhi Sultanate, made it his power centre in the late 12th century, and numerous tombs and mosques were constructed in the complex during the early Sultanate ...