View of the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (706-715) • ISTOCKPHOTO The succession of Mahomet is regulated on the tribal mode by a consensus between the allied clans. Abu Bakr, the first successor (632-634) already very old, is close to Muhammad. He maintains intertribal unity and cont
One of the mythical films in the history of cinema is, without a doubt, Casablanca , winner of the Oscar in 1943. The story of the American Rick Blaine who during World War II runs a nightclub in the Moroccan city where the lives and destinies of an old lover, her husband, the local police chief and
The Battle of Guadalete in 711 marks the conquest of most of Hispania by the Muslims; only the Kingdom of Asturia, which corresponds to the North of Spain, remains Christian. Despite the reconquest of Catalonia by Charlemagne towards the end of the century and the recurrent Christian interventions i
After their victory at Waterloo, on June 18, 1815, the armies of Wellington and Blycher marched on Paris. Old Blycher maneuvered superbly, and after crossing the Seine at Saint Germain, he brought the army to the south side of the city where the French did not expect him and were not prepared to mee