Cahorsins, the Glossary
The Cahorsins were merchants and financiers from the French city of Cahors and the surrounding region of Quercy during the High Middle Ages.[1]
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108 relations: Acre, Israel, Al-Nasir Muhammad, Albigensian Crusade, Alexandria, Atlantic Ocean, Bordeaux, Burgos, Cadurci, Cahors, Cahors wine, Cajarc, Canterbury, Capdenac, Cardaillac, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Castelnau-Montratier (delegated commune), Chamberlain (office), Champagne fairs, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Charles I of Anjou, Charles IV of France, Count of Champagne, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Dominican Order, Duchy of Aquitaine, Dutch language, Economic antisemitism, Edict of Expulsion, Edward I of England, Edward II of England, England, English language, Farm (revenue leasing), Figeac, Flanders, Florence, Garonne, Gascon War, Gascony, Gauscelin de Jean, German language, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gloucester, Gourdon, Lot, Gran Tavola, Henry III of England, Henry III, Duke of Brabant, High Middle Ages, History of the Jews in England, ... Expand index (58 more) »
- Banking in Europe
- Informal finance
- Medieval banking
Acre, Israel
Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad
Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun (الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad (الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali (أبو المعالي) or as Ibn Qalawun (1285–1341) was the ninth Mamluk sultan of the Bahri dynasty who ruled Egypt between 1293–1294, 1299–1309, and 1310 until his death in 1341.
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Albigensian Crusade
The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France.
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Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.
Burgos
Burgos is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Cadurci
The Cadurci were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the later region of Quercy during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Cahors
Cahors (Caors) is a commune in the western part of Southern France.
Cahors wine
Cahors is a red wine made from grapes grown in or around the town of Cahors in the Lot department of southern France.
Cajarc
Cajarc is a commune in the Lot department, Occitania, France.
Canterbury
Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.
Capdenac
Capdenac is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Cardaillac
Cardaillac (Cardalhac) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.
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Castelnau-Montratier (delegated commune)
Castelnau-Montratier (Languedocien: Castèlnau de Montratièr) is a former commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
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Chamberlain (office)
A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: cambellanus or cambrerius, with charge of treasury camerarius) is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household.
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Champagne fairs
The Champagne fairs were an annual cycle of trade fairs which flourished in different towns of the County of Champagne in Northeastern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, originating in local agricultural and stock fairs.
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Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (December 18, 1610 in Amiens – October 23, 1688 in Paris, aged 77), also known simply as Charles Dufresne, was a distinguished French philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium.
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Charles I of Anjou
Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou.
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Charles IV of France
Charles IV (18/19 June 1294 – 1 February 1328), called the Fair (le Bel) in France and the Bald (el Calvo) in Navarre, was last king of the direct line of the House of Capet, King of France and King of Navarre (as Charles I) from 1322 to 1328.
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Count of Champagne
The Count of Champagne was the ruler of the County of Champagne from 950 to 1316.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.
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Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.
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Duchy of Aquitaine
The Duchy of Aquitaine (Ducat d'Aquitània,; Duché d'Aquitaine) was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Economic antisemitism
Economic antisemitism is antisemitism that uses stereotypes and canards that are based on negative perceptions or assertions of the economic status, occupations or economic behaviour of Jews, at times leading to various governmental policies, regulations, taxes and laws that target or which disproportionately impact the economic status, occupations or behaviour of Jews.
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Edict of Expulsion
The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England that was issued by Edward I 18 July 1290; it was the first time a European state is known to have permanently banned their presence.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Edward II of England
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Farm (revenue leasing)
Farming or tax-farming is a technique of financial management in which the management of a variable revenue stream is assigned by legal contract to a third party and the holder of the revenue stream receives fixed periodic rents from the contractor.
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Figeac
Figeac (Fijac) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Lot.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Garonne
The Garonne (also,; Occitan, Catalan, Basque, and Garona.,; Garumna. or Garunna) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain.
Gascon War
The Gascon War, also known as the 1294–1303 Anglo-French War or the Guyenne War (Guerre de Guyenne), was a conflict between the kingdoms of France and England, which held many of its territories in nominal homage to France.
Gascony
Gascony (Gascogne; Gasconha; Gaskoinia) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453).
Gauscelin de Jean
Gauscelin de Jean (died 3 August 1348) was a French cardinal.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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Gloucester
Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.
Gourdon, Lot
Gourdon (Gordon) is a subprefecture of the Lot department in the Occitania region in Southwestern France.
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Gran Tavola
During the Middle Ages, the Gran Tavola (Italian for "Great Table") was the largest Sienese bank;de Roover, Raymond A., and Larson, Henrietta M. 1999. Cahorsins and Gran Tavola are medieval banking.
Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.
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Henry III, Duke of Brabant
Henry III of Brabant (1230 – February 28, 1261, Leuven) was Duke of Brabant between 1248 and his death.
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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History of the Jews in England
The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror.
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Inferno (Dante)
Inferno (Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Kingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
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La Rochelle
La Rochelle (Poitevin-Saintongeais: La Rochéle) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.
La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
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Lavaur, Tarn
Lavaur (La Vaur) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lombard banking
Lombard banking refers to the business of Italian moneylenders generally referred to as "Lombards", even though many originated from Northern and Central Italian regions other than Lombardy. Cahorsins and Lombard banking are history of banking and medieval banking.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lot (river)
The Lot, originally the Olt (Òlt; Oltis), is a river in France.
Louis IX of France
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly revered as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.
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Lucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.
Margaret, Maid of Norway
Margaret (March or April 1283 – September 1290), known as the Maid of Norway, was the Queen-designate of Scotland from 1286 until her death.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (lit; 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts, and cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He authored a number of historical works, many of which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour washes, sometimes called "tinted drawings".
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Maurice Prou
Maurice Prou (28 December 1861, in Sens – 4 October 1930) was a French archivist, paleographer and numismatist.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Merchant capitalism
Some economic historians use the term merchant capitalism, a term coined by the German sociologist and economist Werner Sombart in his "The Genesis of Modern Capitalism" in 1902, to refer to the earliest phase in the development of capitalism as an economic and social system.
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Montcuq
Montcuq (or; Lengadocian: Montcuc) is a town and former commune in the Lot department in south-western France, lying outside Cahors.
Montpellier
Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea.
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Palencia
Palencia is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Paradiso (Dante)
Paradiso (Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.
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Pézenas
Pézenas (Languedocien: Pesenàs) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Philip III of France
Philip III (1 May 1245 – 5 October 1285), called the Bold (le Hardi), was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285.
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Philip V of France
Philip V (c. 1291 – 3 January 1322), known as the Tall (Philippe le Long), was King of France and Navarre (as Philip II) from 1316 to 1322.
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Philippe Wolff
Philippe Wolff (1913–2001) was a French medievalist who specialised in the economic and social history of Languedoc.
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piemont), located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Pope Clement V
Pope Clement V (Clemens Quintus; c. 1264 – 20 April 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled de Guoth and de Goth), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his death, in April 1314.
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Pope John XXII
Pope John XXII (Ioannes PP.; 1244 – 4 December 1334), born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse), was head of the Catholic Church from 7 August 1316 to his death, in December 1334.
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Quercy
Quercy (Carcin, locally) is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne.
Rocamadour
Rocamadour (Rocamador in Occitan) is a commune in the Lot department in southwestern France.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Saint Peter
Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church.
Saint-Gilles, Gard
Saint-Gilles (Provençal: Sant Geli; St.) or Saint-Gilles-du-Gard is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
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Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.
Santander, Spain
Santander is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain.
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Sens
Sens is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris.
Siena
Siena (Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy.
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester (– 25 June 1218), known as Simon IV (or V) de Montfort and as Simon de Montfort the Elder, was a French nobleman and knight of the early 13th century.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.
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Sodomy
Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality).
Souillac, Lot
Souillac (Languedocien: Solhac) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France, on the river Dordogne.
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Southampton
Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
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Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a city and municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.
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Toulouse
Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
Tourves
Tourves (Torvas) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Troyes
Troyes is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France.
Tuscany
Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.
Usury
Usury is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender.
Villandraut
Villandraut (Vilandraut) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Walbrook
Walbrook is a Ward of the City of London and a minor street in its vicinity.
William of Tudela
William of Tudela (in Occitan, Guilhem de Tudela; in French, Guillaume de Tudèle; fl. 1199-1214) was the author of the first part of the Canso de la Crozada or Song of the Albigensian Crusade, an epic poem in Old Occitan giving a contemporary account of the crusade against the Cathars.
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Yves Renouard
Yves Laon Emile Adrien Renouard (17 February 1908 – 15 January 1965) was a French medieval historian.
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See also
Banking in Europe
- Cahorsins
- European Banking Federation
- European Payments Initiative
- Global Credit Data
- Institutional protection scheme
Informal finance
- Cahorsins
- Chit fund
- Commonwealth v. Donoghue
- Datta Phuge
- Earned wage access
- Financial domination
- Informal value transfer systems
- Kitty party
- Loan shark
- Pawn shops
- Pawnbroker
- Payday loan
- Rotating savings and credit association
- Tontine
Medieval banking
- Acciaioli family
- Bank of Saint George
- Bank of Venice
- Bank van Lening
- Cahorsins
- Compagnia dei Bardi
- Discretionary deposit
- Gran Tavola
- Lombard banking
- Medici Bank
- Peruzzi
- Scali family
- Solaro (family)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahorsins
Also known as Cahors bankers, Cahorsin.
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