In 1911 the Italy-Ottoman Empire war broke out. In the spring of 1912 the Italians began to occupy the Greek Dodecanese. The Italians reached Kastellorizo on April 29, 1912 but did not occupy it because they considered it too far from the other islands and could not hold it, despite the request of
Don Pelayo Asturian king. His origins are uncertain, it is believed that he was the son of a Gothic nobleman named Fávila. During the reign of Witiza he fell out with the Gothic king (the reasons are unknown) and exiled to the North, where the Goths never came to control the area. This is the fir
During the reigns of Pepin the Short and his son Charlemagne, the Carolingians conquered, between the 8th and 9th centuries, vast territories and united large areas of western Europe into a single unit. On Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans. This map shows the
At the time of the digital revolution, it is very difficult for us to imagine how tumultuous the history of photography was and especially how long it took to take even a single photograph. This invention, now common to everyone, we owe it to a Frenchman, Nicéphore Niépce. Intended for the priestho