Charlemagne (742-814) is a Frankish king then an Emperor of the West who reigned from 768 to 814 and gave his name to the Carolingian dynasty. Eldest son of Pepin the Short, he reigned alone after the death of his brother Carloman in 771 over an area which then covered Gaul and part of Germania. In
The archaeological area of Pompeii, the city destroyed in 79 by the eruption of Vesuvius, never ceases to amaze and this Saturday the discovery of a thermopoly has been reported , the place where food and drink were served to the inhabitants, intact and decorated and with still remains of food, wh
Todays post takes us back to the convulsive early years of the Christian peninsular kingdoms, in which they were so busy trying to define their borders and their own identity against to the rest of the monarchies descended from the Visigoths as well as to gain ground from the Muslim occupants of the
In the photo you can see the site of Mómtskïy Kámen near the village of Pachni. All residents of Pachni know the history of this rock. As the old men of the village say, local girls committed suicide from this rock to escape the Turks. During the years of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks had come to