In 1715 the Turkish danger again began to be felt on the eastern borders of the Habsburg Empire. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Peter the Greats 40,000 men in battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionist policy, the Turks, viola
The armies of Tsar Nicholas II have suffered heavy losses since he took over their command in 1915. Workers demonstrations in Petrograd (February 23-28, 1917), supported by rebellious soldiers, led to the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II on March 2. There followed cooperation between the soviets and th
In Greek mythology, Hecate (in ancient Greek Hekátê) is a goddess of the Moon, daughter of the Titan Perses (or of his namesake, Perses son of Helios according to tradition) and of Asteria. Some authors make her the mother of Scylla, whom she would have had with Phorcys or Apollo. Its role has evol
Muslims in other islands in the Indonesian archipelago, including Java, differ greatly from Muslims in Arabia and West Asia. Since the matriarchal authority used to be on these islands, so even after becoming a Muslim, they accepted the primacy of women instead of men. Here the right to divorce is