21) Stockport. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A borough of northwest England on the Mersey River south of Manchester. Chartered in 1220, it produces textiles and machinery. Population: 291,447....
22) Bohun, Henry de, 1st earl of Hereford. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Bohun, Henry de, 1st earl of Hereford, (boon, he´rfrd) (KEY) , 1176-1220, English nobleman. Although King John granted him the marcher lordship of Hereford in 1199,...
23) Salisbury, town and district, England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...pop. 36,890) and district, Wiltshire, S England. A market town, Salisbury was founded in 1220 when the bishopric was moved there from Old Sarum. Squares or "checkers"...
24) Karakorum. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inhabited by Turkic tribes from the first century a.d., it became Genghis Khan's capital c. 1220 but was abandoned by Kublai Khan in 1267....
25) Salisbury. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Plain, a chalky plateau that is the site of Stonehenge. The city was chartered in 1220 and developed around its noted cathedral. Population: 35,700. 2. See Harare....
26) Beghards. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...whom they were later often confused. Of unknown origin, they first appeared at Louvain in 1220 and soon spread throughout the Netherlands and into Germany, France,...
27) Ray, town, Iran. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and medieval city of Rages, Ray was known for its fine silks. It was destroyed by Mongols in 1220 and later fell into ruin. The mausoleum of Hazrat abd al-Azim, a...
28) Samarqand. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...in 329, taken by the Arabs in the eighth century a.d., and destroyed by Genghis Khan c. 1220. It was rebuilt as a fabled center of great splendor and opulence when...
29) Fibonacci, Leonardo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and arithmetic, he advocated the adoption of Arabic notation. In Practica geometriae (1220) he organized and extended the material then known in geometry and trigonometry....
30) Karakorum, ruined city, Mongolia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...nomadic Turkic tribes from the 1st cent. A.D., but the city itself was not laid out until c.1220, when Jenghiz Khan, founder of the Mongol empire, established his...
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