XVII
- numeral
- When counting in Roman numerals, XVII is the correct way to write the number 17.
- Kazembe XVII
- Mwata Kazembe XVII
- History XVII
Examples
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The Herrnhuters or Brethren church movement is the first Latvian Awakening. XVII century Herrnhuters.
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(n9) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, "2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic" (report presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico: August 2008).
Academic text (2009) -
Be a sculptor! The genuine ancient Christian art from the XVII and XVIII centuries.
Fiction book (1994) -
The third and final resonance on this theme of pulsation is found in Chapter XVII.
Academic text (2017) -
So from the time my elder brother Kazembe XVII initiated this as an annual event, people have been flocking.
Academic text (2006) -
"It's a mock-up, done with ancient drawings... ...of tools created by Girolamo Fumagalli... ...by the end of the XVII century, which seems to have magical features."
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In 1971, Kazembe XVII celebrated his decade as Mwata by formally initiating the Mutomboko as an annual tradition.
Academic text (2006) -
Article XVII (as amended in 1986) allows dual Jordanian and foreign (ajnabi, non-Arab) citizenship.
Academic text (1995) -
Italian pennant bearers of the XVII century were frequently... known to patrol the rampart on the lookout for Turkish invaders.
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In the Roman numeral system, the number XVII represents seventeen.
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Etymology
XVII is a Roman numeral made of letters that stand for numbers: X is '10', V is '5' and I is '1', so XVII is 10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 17. That's why XVII means the number 'seventeen'.