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The Medieval Kingdom of Hungary – Pt. 5 The Fall

In 1490, the Hungarian throne was occupied by the Czech king Vladislav II Jagiellon under the name of Vladislaus II (1490-1516). During the reign...

Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)

Causes Italy as a newly-formed power was looking for markets and tried to expand its colonial possessions. The Italians began to conduct diplomatic preparations for...

The Colonial Italian Empire

The colonies of Italy are a combination of European and overseas territories of Italy in relation to Italy, which in the 19th and 20th...

First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894-96)

Introduction and War By 1895, the African continent was largely divided between the European powers, but Ethiopia, remained independent. Italy, which was late to the...

The Hungarian War of Independence

Background Based on the national guard created in the first days of the revolution, the Hungarian government began to create its own army. This caused...

Hungarian Revolution of 1848

Background By the middle of the XIX century, the system of absolutism, established during the Napoleonic wars in Hungary, ceased to meet the interests of...

The July Monarchy (1830-1848)

New Structure The main result of the revolution was the provision of parliamentarism, the rights of the individual, and minor expansion of the ruling class....

History and Formation of The Holy Alliance

The Holy Alliance is a conservative union of Russia, Prussia and Austria, created to maintain the international order established at the Vienna Congress (1815)....

The July Revolution and the Decline of the Bourbons

Consequences The conservative government under the leadership of the well-known reactionary Count Polignac, who succeeded  the moderate cabinet of Martinjak in the summer of 1829...

The Second Bourbon Restoration (1815-1830)

Fall of Napoleon The allies entered the capital of France for the second time and again after them - in their luggage, as they said...

The First Bourbon Restoration (1814-1815)

First Restoration On April 6, 1814, the Senate, acting on the instigation of Talleyrand and at the request of the Allies, proclaimed the restoration of...

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...

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