Yet in medieval times, people built hilltop villages here to find safety from pirates and marauding armies.
These racy poems shed light on the lives of regular people in medieval times.
It was popular in medieval times but imports and habitat changes led to a decline.
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Aceh in Sumatra was the first area to convert to Islam, in medieval times.
In medieval times men were said to push herbs, mushrooms and other purportedly aphrodisiacal potions on women.
In medieval times, professional perfumers would concoct personal scents for their clients from six to eight special ingredients.
It is the second one to be installed for centuries, as most were completed in medieval times, the church said.
By all accounts, TB was not such a big killer in medieval times, when people stayed in their small villages.
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In medieval times Kosovo was the centre of the Serbian Empire, and Serbs regard it as the birthplace of their nation.
In medieval times hawkers would sell lead-alloy badges to travellers and the exhibition, faithful to this tradition, contains many such badges.
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But modern would-be immortals know that old-fashioned cure-alls, like the ground mummy dust to which hopeful aristocrats turned in medieval times, were only so much quackery.
In medieval times a royal castle was situated on part of the site, and last year items from Saxon times were unearthed in an initial trench.
It helps, of course, that there's so much nostalgia out there for the show, a whimsical coming-of-age story set in medieval times that opened in 1972 and ran for five years.
But patent law has been a feature of legal systems in free nations since Medieval times, and must be honored in hydraulic fracturing just as it is honored where soft drinks are concerned.
Beheadings, amputations, flagellation and stoning are among the prescribed punishments for those who transgress this barbaric code, punishments plucked from primitive tribal practices in the Arabian deserts dating back to medieval times.
The so-called Dark Ages, which date roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire in 422 A.D. to early medieval times, saw a massive contraction of interregional trade and investment.
England, he accepted, naturally had a sentimental attachment to its footballing history, which dated back to medieval times, but the reality was that players in the modern game were getting ever more accomplished.
The real fun begins with paint, as Mr Ball describes in rich detail the development of artists' colours from medieval to modern times.
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