The major Italian cities -- Milan, Venice, and Genoa -- were located on important trade routes. Milan stood at the base of the Alps, linking Italy with northern and western Europe. Venice dominated trade in the Adriatic Sea, while Genoa controlled trade with France, Spain, and north Africa.
Gaius Avidius Casius was the one who rebelled against one of the Five Good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and why did he do this despite being second only to the emperor at the time? This time I would like to think about that area. The best educated Greek born in Syria Casius was born in
80 Years since the Battle of Crete, the German airborne operation with the code name Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury), the most extensive aerial occupation of the 5th largest island in the Mediterranean, with the significant firsts of a World War II airborne operation unique in its kind and sc
At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Stalin spent five years studying at the seminary in Tiflis. Did the bloody dictator really want to become a clergyman? Did the man who had thousands of popes and the destruction of the Russian Church on his conscience dreamed of becoming an Orthodox bishop? Or
Alexander the Great had transferred Greek culture to the reaches of Asia. In the valley of Fergana, in present-day Tajikistan, he had founded Alexandria Echati, on the Yaxarti river (present-day Sir Darya), which he colonized with Greeks. The local Greeks and locals lived under the Hellenistic ki