Sentences with phrase «twelfth century the houses»

By the twelfth century the houses embraced in the movement numbered more than three hundred.

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The twelfth century witnessed as its most widespread new monastic endeavor the founding of the Cistercians, from Citeaux (Latin Cistercium), the mother house, in what is now North - eastern France.

The ruling house in Eastern Sudan from the tenth through the twelfth century (sixteenth - eighteenth century AD.)

A history that began in the fourth century with a Roman fortress and settlement has bestowed a wealth of stunningly - preserved historic buildings upon Boppard from the remains of the original Roman city wall to the twelfth - century Church of St. Severus, notable for its twin spires and beautiful stained - glass windows, and to the many half - timbered houses which were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.