The city of Granada from the Alhambra Palace, residence of the Nasrid kings from the 13th to the 15th century • ISTOCK We owe to Ibn Khaldûn, Arab thinker of the XIVth century, an original theory on empires. According to him, the only way to create wealth is to accumulate it by raising taxes. An
When World War II broke out, on 1 September 1939 two Cavalry Regiments joined the newly formed Cavalry Brigade (TI). Other cavalry regiments were disbanded and their divisions distributed to other formations. TI extended the 1st and 2nd SI, with the above composition. In addition to the two regi
Between 1097 and 1293, the medieval world saw involved in two almost continuous centuries of war between Christianity and Islam. Two ways of seeing the world, with the only separation being the Mediterranean Sea, and even the Iberian Peninsula, or the Byzantine Empire, separated by a diffuse land bo
A handwritten note from Walter Kirke , head of the secret services of the British Expeditionary Force (British Expeditionary Force) during the First World War, aroused the curiosity of the English historian Raphael Stipic … […] a young woman dressed as a man and headed to the front line hoping to