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Hercynian
Hercynia is a name for the ancient Hercynian Forest. Hercynia or Hercynian may also refer to: *458 Hercynia, an asteroid *Hercynian orogeny, a synonym for the Variscan orogeny The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. Nomenclature The name ''Varis ... of the Carboniferous *Hercynian massifs, part of the Massif Central of France *, a journal published by the Universities and Landesbibliothek of Sachsen-Anhalt, which covers ecology and environmental biology *''Hercynia'', a junior synonym of the ant genus '' Wasmannia'' * Hercuniates, a tribe of ancient Hercynia See also * Hyrcania (other) * Perkwunos, a possibly related ancient Celtic word {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercynian Forest
The Hercynian Forest was an ancient and dense forest that stretched across Western Central Europe, from North French Scarplands, Northeastern France to the Carpathian Mountains, including most of Southern Germany, though its boundaries are a matter of debate. It formed the northern boundary of that part of Europe known to writers of Antiquity. The ancient sources are equivocal about how far east it extended. Many agree that the Black Forest, which extended east from the Rhine valley, formed the western side of the Hercynian, except, for example, Lucius of Tongres, Lucius of Tongeren. According to him, it included many massifs west of the Rhine. Across the Rhine to the west extended the ''Silva Carbonaria'', the forest of the Ardennes Forest, Ardennes and the forest of the Vosges. All these old-growth forests of antiquity represented the original post-glacial temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, temperate broadleaf forest ecosystem of Europe. Relict (biology), Relict tracts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variscan Orogeny
The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. Nomenclature The name ''Variscan'' comes from the Medieval Latin name for the district '' Variscia'', the home of a Germanic tribe, the Varisci; Eduard Suess, professor of geology at the University of Vienna, coined the term in 1880. ( Variscite, a rare green mineral first discovered in the Vogtland district of Saxony in Germany, which is in the Variscan belt, has the same etymology.) ''Hercynian'', on the other hand, derives from the Hercynian Forest. Both words were descriptive terms of strike directions observed by geologists in the field, ''variscan'' for southwest to northeast, ''hercynian'' for northwest to southeast. The ''variscan'' direction reflected the direction of ancient fold belts cropping out throughout Germany and adjacent countries and the meanin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
458 Hercynia
458 Hercynia, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 38 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 September 1900, by astronomers Max Wolf and Arnold Schwassmann at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The asteroid was named for the ancient Hercynian Forest, known to the Romans as "Hercynia silva". Orbit and classification ''Hercynia'' is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.3–3.7 AU once every 5 years and 2 months (1,896 days; semi-major axis of 3.00 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.24 and an inclination of 13 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins two days after to its official discovery observation at Heidelberg. Physical characteristics In the Tholen classification, ''Hercynia'' is a common S-type, while in the SMASS class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasmannia
''Wasmannia'' is a genus of ants. ''Wasmannia auropunctata'' is known as the ''electric ant''Electric ant (''Wasmannia auropunctata'') webpage Accessed 7 March 2009 or ''little fire ant'' and are considered by many countries to be a destructive, highly . Species *'' Wasmannia affinis'' Santschi, 1929 *'''' (Roger, 1863) *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercuniates
This is a list of ancient tribes in the ancient territory of Illyria (; ). The name ''Illyrians'' seems to be the name of a single Illyrian tribe that was the first to come into contact with the ancient Greeks, causing the name Illyrians to be applied to all people of similar language and customs. The locations of Illyrian tribes/peoples prior to the Roman conquest are approximate, as sometimes many wholly different locations are given by ancient writers and modern authors (as in the case of the Enchelei). After the Great Illyrian Revolt, the Romans deported, split, and resettled Illyrian tribes within Illyria itself and to Dacia, sometimes causing whole tribes to vanish and new ones to be formed from their remains, such as the Deraemestae and the Docleatae, some of them mixed with Celtic tribes (see Celticization). Many tribal names are known from Roman and the number of their , formed of the dispersed tribes in Illyria. Illyrian Albani The '' Albani'' (Latinized form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyrcania (other)
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Hyrcania or Hyrkania may refer to : ;Geography *Hyrcania, a historical region south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran ** Hyrcanian civilization ** Hyrcanian Ocean, the Caspian Sea **Hyrcanian forests, a large forest zone on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in Iran and Azerbaijan * Hyrcania (fortress), ruined Judaean fortress in the West Bank * Hyrcania (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia ;Fictional geography * Hyrkania (Conan), a fictional location in Robert E. Howard's Conan mythos *Hyrkania, a fictional location in Marvel Comic's Red Sonja mythos See also * Gorgan (other) * Hercynia (other) * Hyrcanus (other) Hyrcanus may refer to * John Hyrcanus, Jewish High Priest, 134–104 BCE * Hyrcanus II, King of Judea, 67–66 BCE * Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus, prominent sage in Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE * Hyrcanus, the son of Tobias, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
