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Kings and Power: Exploring Jewish Texts in their Hellenistic Contexts (Helsinki, 3-4 Dec)

Helsinki, 3–4 December 2016
Bookshop Arkadia, Nervanderinkatu 11

Please pre-register by 18 November:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/75042/lomake.html

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact
Tuukka Kauhanen (tuukka.kauhanen@helsinki.fi) or Elisa Uusimäki (elisa.uusimaki@helsinki.fi).

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Madrid, the City of Kings

by Tuukka Kauhanen

I am spending the most part of the academic year 2014–15 in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Madrid is a major European capital and, for a Finn, a very large city: the surroundings of every Metro station is like a middle-sized Finnish town – only much livelier! There is a large old city centre, including the magnificent Palacio Real. For centuries, Madrid has been the city of the Spanish Kings, now of His Majesty Felipe VI. Continue reading Madrid, the City of Kings