«In Calatañazor Almanzor lost his drum». According to this popular saying, in Calatañazor (Soria) Muhammad ibn Abu Amir (al-Mansur, for Christians Almanzor) was defeated and killed in this battle. But the reality is that said battle never existed, or if it did exist, it was no more than a small skir
After the destruction of the Vandals by Belisarius, the new province of the Byzantine Empire, in todays Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, did not rest. The Moorish descendants of the ancient Numidians, rebelled against the empire. With Belisarius and the flower of the Byzantine Army in Italy, the administ
Today, with the use of portable refrigerators and isothermal boxes, it is easy to maintain the cold chain and transport vaccines, but two centuries ago... To the English doctor Edward Jenner We owe him the discovery of the smallpox vaccine and, by extension, vaccines. He found that people who had b
The Greeks throughout their history have proven to be brilliant warriors. Not only could the Mycenaean ancestors not be an exception, but they were the ones who set the heroic ideal that nurtured so many generations of Greeks. Alexander, Makrygiannis, Kolokotronis and so many other leading figur