DARU , Pierre-Antoine-Noël Bruno, Count (Montpellier, January 12, 1767 - Château de Bècheville, near Meulan, September 5, 1829). Provincial war commissioner since 1784, Daru became financial commissioner in 1792, then chief officer of the army of the coasts of Brest and Cher-bourg. Arrested some
A character of humble origins named Ahmad ibn Būya he takes Baghdad in the year 946, holding hostage, in practical terms, the very Caliph al-Mustaqfi. Ahmad ibn Būya comes from the Daylam region, north of present-day Iran and on the shores of the Caspian. He, along with his two brothers, gather a pr
In this sense, in the river basins Volga and Don is where the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius locates Tartary, as we can see on the world map Typus orbis terrarum [1], from 1608, where we also see that Tartary differs from Mongolia itself or from Turkestan. But it can also, in a more general
In January 1945, Soviet forces had split the German front in Poland on the Vistula River. The German armies were pushed back as far as the Oder River in the west. The German 2nd Army, on the other hand, retreated northwards and occupied defensive positions in Pomerania and West Prussia, on the shore