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    a professor of classical philology and archaeology at the University of Dorpat, and afterwards was named a successor to Otto Benndorf at the University...
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    his representatives Richard Filangieri, Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, and Hermann of Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, arrived in the east late...
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    oldest living newspaper in the world, and with the same title, is the Gazzetta di Mantova, regularly published in Mantua (Italy) since 1664 Newspapers − apart...
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  • Bloemfontein 075 University of Tartu Old Observatory active until 1964 (formerly Dorpat Observatory until 1919; not to be confused with modern Tartu Observatory...
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    across the world made observations starting August 1835, including Struve at Dorpat observatory, and Sir John Herschel, who made of observations from the Cape...
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  • Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Döllen (1820–1897), a German astronomer at the Dorpat Observatory, was an assistant of W. Struve. Later he worked on geodetic...
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  • Venice. From 1884 to 1889 he lived with relatives in the Livonian village of Dorpat. He attended school in Venice and then a commercial college. From 1901 he...
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    Paul de Thermes. July 18 – The city of Tartu, capital of the Bishopric of Dorpat (in modern-day Estonia) surrenders to Russia. August 22 – In Spain, Bartolomé...
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    254–262. Latin: Patriarchæ Aquileiensis, Italian: Patriarcato di Aquileia, Friulian: Patriarcjât di Aquilee, Venetian: Patriarcal de Aquileja Dugdale, Thomas;...
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    area of Minsk and Volhynia. He graduated from the Imperial University of Dorpat with a diploma of doctor of Law. In 1903, on behalf of the family, he donated...
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