Since the crusades many centuries ago, "the Turk" has been a mysterious and threatening figure in the European imagination.

Later manifestations of the European imagination include political and economic interventions.

For some 1500 years, the black swan existed in the European imagination as a metaphor for that which could not exist.

This negotiation of stations, between the European imagination and the physical site would continue for the next six centuries.

The new discoveries revealed shortcomings in classical knowledge; they also opened European imagination to new possibilities.

These water sources have always been guarded by supernatural forces in the European imagination.

But he hopes to make films that will capture European and American imaginations by having a little of something for everyone.

Purea entered the European imagination as something between a traditional monarch and a queen of the fairies.

"Norumbega, apart from the name, which means 'quiet place between two rapids' in Algonkin, was wholly created by European imagination."

With the arrival of photography in the mid-19th century, the desert entered the European imagination.