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The Cyprus Crisis

Cyprus was plunged into Chaos on the 15th of July, 1974 when the Greek Junta of Ioannides staged a successful Coup and took over...

Some of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in History

Anna Komnene Anna Komnene was the daughter of Alexios Komnenos, the first Byzantine emperor of the Komenian line that ruled from 1081-1118 and became on...

Tigranes the Great (95–55 BC) – King of Armenia

Tigranes II the Great 140 BC - 55 BC was the king of Great Armenia, a great commander, and conqueror of the Hellenistic era,...

East Germanic Tribe – The Gepids

The Gepids was an ancient Germanic tribe, akin to the Goths. According to the Geography of Ptolemy, Gepids lived among the Baltic tribes, on...

The Portuguese Colonial Empire

The Portuguese Empire is a collection of overseas territories that were colonized by the Portuguese from  the 15th to the 20th century. The precondition...

Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)

The Ottoman-Mamluk War of 1516-1517 was the second war between the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate, which led to the complete destruction of...

The Great Migration Period

The great migration is a conditional name for the ethnic change in Europe in the 4th-7th century, mainly from the periphery of the Roman...

The History of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval feudal state in the Middle East, which existed from 1250 to 1517. The sultanate was formed as a...

Henry VI, the King of Germany, and Holy Roman Emperor

Henry VI (German Heinrich VI) was the King of Germany from 1169, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 and the King of Sicily since...

History of The Kingdom of Sicily (1130 -1861)

The Kingdom of Sicily existed in the south of modern Italy from 1130 to 1861. It included the actual island of Sicily, and also,...

The History of the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171)

The Fatimid caliphate 909-1171 was a medieval Shiite Arab state centered in Cairo from 972. In the era of its power, the Fatimid caliphate...

History of the Emirate of Sicily

The Sicilian emirate was a Muslim state that controlled the entire island of Sicily from 965 to 1072. The Muslim community remained on the...

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The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71

The population of the annexed lands, with the exception of the Danish-speaking inhabitants of northern Schleswig, loyally perceived the annexation of Prussia by their...

German Unification – The Austro-Prussian War of 1866

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The Birth of German Unification

In the era of the Great Migration of Nations, the migrating German tribes from the north of Europe dispersed throughout the continent, creating barbarian...

German Unification – The Danish-Prussian War of 1864

Introduction October 7, 1858 to power in Prussia came 60-year-old prince Wilhelm I, brother of the demented King Frederick William IV. After his death on...

Formation of a Single Italian State – The Last Wars

The Piedmontese ruling circles tried to prevent the convening of an all-Italian Constituent Assembly and to unite through a simple territorial expansion of the...