After the establishment of the Arab caliphate, the Byzantine Empire found itself facing a fanatical and stubborn opponent on its eastern borders. The Arabs carried out destructive raids at regular intervals in Asia Minor throughout the 8th and 9th centuries in an attempt to spread, through jihad, ho
In 1919, the First Army Corps (SS) was sent, at the request of the Allies, to Southern Russia, todays Ukraine, to fight, despite the side of French and Russian white forces, against the Bolsheviks. In this context, the main forces of the First SS landed, gradually, from Odessa to Kherson, the 2nd
On July 24, 2011 we made an entry, in this same blog, about turnismo in the Restoration. This was a fundamental element for political functioning during this period and, although its purpose was clear, its mechanisms were more complex, all of them being linked to electoral manipulation and the pheno
As a result of the comment that Cayetano left in the previous post, in which he defined Messalina as an icon for compulsive onanists, I remembered a story that he had read in the book Historias de la Historia by Carlos Fisas -the bedside book for all of us who write this type of article- and now I