St. George (13th century), one of the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Established on the high plateaus of the Horn of Africa, near the western coasts of the Red Sea, the kingdom of Aksum imposed itself from the Ist century AD. AD as a trading partner in the great tra
Nairi , an old district Southwest Asia located at the upper upper reaches of the Tigris and the Euphrates and at Lake Van (called the Sea of Nairi by the Assyrians; now in Turkey) and at Lake Urmia (now in Iran). It is known mainly from Assyrian inscriptions, including tho
Speaking of the Sahel, it is considered that, withdrawing or hastily remodeling the regions military forces now, as is being debated in France by announcing the possible end of Operation Barkhane, which would affect other European forces, would produce regional chaos that would entail, given the ext
February 1916, Joffre is sixty-four years old. He was general and commander-in-chief at the dawn of the Battle of Verdun. When the threat of the biggest German offensive arrives, Joffre ignores the warnings he receives, deeming the Battle of the Somme more important, his priority. He only reacts aft