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• the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
• the medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
• the medieval bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls (pictured) after sunset may be shot with a longbow, has never been officially repealed?
• the Catalan Atlas (pictured), one of the most important maps of the medieval period, was made by Abraham Cresques, who belonged to the Majorcan cartographic school, in 1375?
• in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar, around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops?
• one of the most important advances in medieval Islamic psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals?
• the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom, an officers' mess, a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub?
• the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House?
• the important medieval fresco cycle in Castelseprio, Italy, (pictured) was rediscovered only in 1944?
• the subject in art of Christ taking leave of his Mother (pictured) has no biblical basis but derives from medieval devotional writing?
• the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century?
• the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house?
• the New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line?
• in 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house (pictured) was being used as a cider store?
• before brick became available as a building material, churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble?
• Cockaigne was a legendary peasant utopia of medieval Europe?
• Dunash ben Labrat, a medieval Jewish writer, introduced Arabic language poetic meter into Hebrew poetry?
• Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
• Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land?
• medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees?
• Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin?
• Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle?
• Main Market Square (pictured) in Kraków is one of the biggest medieval market squares in Europe?
• The Georgian Chronicles are a series of medieval texts outlining the history of the Kingdom of Georgia dating from the 9th to the 14th century?
• podestà was a powerful position in medieval north Italian cities?
• St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire was built in 1926–27 from medieval ruins?
• St Laurence Church, Ludlow, England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings, but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman's gravesite?
• St. Mary's Church, South Stoneham (pictured) is one of the two remaining medieval churches in the city of Southampton, England, with parts of the building dating from the 12th century?
• archeological excavations proved that the Visoko valley (pictured) was the center of the medieval Bosnian state and later kingdom?