Nassau , historical region Germany , and the Noble family that provided their hereditary rulers for centuries. The present-day royal heads of the Netherlands and Luxembourg descend from this family, known as the House of Nassau. The Nassau region is located in what is now the western pa
The Falklands War began after the surprise occupation of the island complex - British territory - by Argentina which was then ruled by the junta of General Galtieri. Contrary to the predictions of the Argentines, the British reacted and sent forces to retake the islands. Fierce dogfights took pla
During the Second Persian War, the Persians burned and razed Athens twice. The first under the direction of Xerxes himself in 480 BC, and the second with Mardonius the following year, in 479 BC. In 480 BC, after his victory at Thermopylae, Xerxes advanced on Attica and took the capital, whose popu
It is not known how Vlad III died. He fell at the end of 1476 during a fight against the Turks, perhaps betrayed by one of his trusted men, a Turk bought by Mehmed II, who would have beheaded him with a sword stroke. Her embalmed head was sent to the sultan. According to tradition, Vlad is buried in