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APT , a See also:town of See also:south-eastern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Vaucluse, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Coulon, 41 M. E. of See also:Avignon by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 4990. The town was formerly surrounded by massive See also:ancient walls, but these have now been for the most See also:part replaced by boulevards; many of its streets are narrow and irregular. The See also:chief See also:object of See also:interest is the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Sainte-See also:Anne (once the See also:cathedral), the See also:building of which was begun about the See also:year 1056 on the site of a much older edifice, but not completed until the latter See also:half of the 17th See also:century. Many See also:Roman remains have been found in and near the town. A See also:fine See also:bridge, the See also:Pont See also:Julien, spanning the Coulon below the town, See also:dates from the 2nd or 3rd century. A tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college are the chief public institutions. The chief manufactures are See also:silk, See also:confectionery and earthenware; and there is besides a considerable See also:trade in See also:fruit, See also:grain and See also:cattle. Apt was at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the chief town of the Vulgientes, a Gallic tribe; it was destroyed by the See also:Romans about 125 B.C. and restored by See also:Julius See also:Caesar, who conferred upon it the See also:title Apia Julia; it was much injured by the See also:Lombards and the See also:Saracens, but its fortifications were rebuilt by the See also:counts of See also:Provence. The bishopric, founded in the 3rd century, was suppressed in 1790.
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