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-->Boris I
Khan of Bulgaria (852-89). He resolved to use Christianity to unite his ethnically divided country, and an unsuccessful war with the Byzantines led to his baptism in the Orthodox faith (864). Boris's attempt to enforce mass baptism set off a pagan rebellion, which he quelled, and he helped establish the Bulgarian church. He sponsored missionaries to foster Slavic learning and the use of the Old Church Slavic language. He abdicated in 889 to become a monk but returned to drive his reactionary son Vladimir from the throne. After installing another son, Simeon I, as khan, Boris went back to his monastery. He was later made an Orthodox saint.
loris
Any of three species of nocturnal, arboreal primates in the family Lorisidae. Lorises have soft gray or brown fur, huge eyes encircled by dark patches, and no tail. They move slowly and often hang by their feet, leaving their hands free to grasp branches or food. The slender loris (Loris tardigradus) of India and Sri Lanka is 8-10 in. (20-25 cm) long; it eats insects and small animals. The slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) of SE Asia and the Malay Peninsula eat insects, small animals, fruit, and vegetation. Nycticebus pygmaeus is about 8 in. (20 cm) long; N. coucang is 10.5-15 in. (27-38 cm) long. Habitat degradation and hunting have seriously depleted loris populations.
Corinth
Ancient city of the Peloponnese, Greece. Located on the Gulf of Corinth, the site was occupied from before 3000 BC, but it was in the 8th cent. BC that it developed as a commercial center. In the late 6th cent. BC, it was outstripped by Athens. Occupied in 338 BC by Philip of Macedon, it was destroyed in 146 BC by Rome. In 44 BC J. Caesar reestablished Corinth as a Roman colony; the New Testament includes the letters addressed to its Christian community by St. Paul. It declined in the later Middle Ages; its ruins are near the modern city of Corinth (pop., 1991: 29,000).
German painter and graphic artist. He trained in Paris with W. A. Bouguereau. In 1902 he settled in Berlin and, with M. Liebermann, became a leading exponent of Impressionism in Germany. After recovering from a stroke in 1911, his style became much looser and more powerfully Expressionist. He was best known for his landscapes and portraits, incl. numerous powerfully expressive self-portraits, and produced many etchings and lithographs (e.g., Apocalypse, 1921).
Corsica
Island (pop., 1991 est.: 251,000), in the Mediterranean Sea. An administrative region of France, and the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean, it has an area of 3,352 sq mi (8,681 sq km). While remains of human occupation date from at least the 3rd millennium BC, its recorded history begins c.560 BC, when Greeks from Asia Minor founded a town there. Taken by the Romans in the 3rd-2nd cent. BC, it, together with Sardinia, became a prosperous Roman province. Conquered later by several peoples, incl. the Byzantines and Arabs, it ...
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