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The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity by Oliver Nicholson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780198662778

Publication Date: 2018

Coverage of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity.
The Oxford English Dictionary by John Simpson (Editor); Edmund Weiner (Editor)
ISBN: 9780198611868

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