That state is, of course, Florida, for five centuries the beckoning frontier of first European and then American yearning.
But inside his head, in thousands of tales and ballads handed down for five centuries, lived kings, witches, demons and mermaids.
The third complication is that England has an established church whose authority has been intertwined with the state's for five centuries.
Canterbury has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries.
The TROMBONE (also sometimes called SLIDE TROMBONE ) has remained largely unchanged for over five centuries.
For its first five centuries, it served, as the name suggests, as the fancy dining hall for the university's more prosperous students.
Sprawling across 180 acres of downtown Beijing, this vast palace served as the symbolic and political centre of the Chinese world for more than five centuries.
The average age at end of service for the last five Supreme Court justices has, for nearly all of the last two centuries, been above 60, and above 70 for most of the last 30 years of the 19th century, when the average U.S. 40-year-old man's life expectancy was about 65, according to Colgate University economics professor Michael Haines.
The average age of the last five popes at death has been above 70 for nearly all of the last four centuries older than world-wide male life expectancy at birth today.
Perched on a remote hilltop, this 1, 600-year-old monastery faces five separate lawsuits contesting its right to retain land that church leaders say they have owned for centuries but have been unable to register because of bureaucratic stonewalling.
Except for twenty-five years (1797-1821) the British pound was on a gold-coin standard for two straight centuries (1717-1914).
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