Although the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 were the ones who, after taking Granada, finished the Reconquest and unified the Christian kingdoms, they were not the first to try. Many had the idea, but only the attempt of Urraca I of Castilla y León and Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre the Battler » is note
When the ridiculous Italian dictator Mussolini declared war on Greece, the small Greek Air Force (then Royal Hellenic Air Force - EBA) had two Gloster Gladiator Mk I fighter jets donated by expatriate Stylianos Sarpakis. By December 1940 the EBA was already exhausted in its effort to deal with the p
Terror of the year 1000, story of a fabrication. “It was a universal belief in the Middle Ages that the world was to end with the year one thousand of the incarnation […] This end of such a sad world was all together the hope and the dread of the Middle Ages. » Jules Michelet (1798-1874), Histo
Recaredo I was a Visigoth king . He succeeded his father, Leovigild, in April 586. Reccared knew from the experience of his father and his brother that there could be no peace in his kingdom nor would his throne be secure if it did not solve the religious problem; but it happened that, in his kingdo