The Sassanian dynasty attributed their lineage to deities, the shahanshahs they considered themselves representatives of the divine power on Earth and, therefore, were bound by Zoroastrian law to materialize the teachings of Zoroaster and Ohrmazd . The 3rd century reliefs of Ardashir and Narsés are
Manuel Joaquín Álvarez de Toledo He was born into one of the best positioned Castilian noble families, the Álvarez de Toledo, as the only son of Duarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo Monroy y Ayala, who held different important positions during the reign of Felipe IV, married to his cousin Ana Mónica o
A little more than seven centuries after the coronation of Charlemagne, Aachen was the setting chosen by the still Carlos I of Spain, monarch of the conglomerate of Hispanic kingdoms and of the set of possessions that had been annexed ‒from Naples to Cuba (1)‒ to receive the crown of King of Romans.
Although we do not know many details of his life , Charieto represents very well what the modus vivendi was of many of the frontiersmen of the fourth century , straddling the barbarian world and the Roman. We do not know the date of his birth, although he was undoubtedly of German origin, he alone i
In human communities, random mating may not occur for sociological or biological reasons. In the first scenario, it is worth highlighting (i) homogamy and (ii) hypergamy. Homogamy would be the union or marriage, with its potential offspring, between individuals with shared sociocultural characterist
The Condor Legion Mainly made up of hunting, bombing, reconnaissance, anti-aircraft artillery and tanks, it carried out both combat tasks and advice for the Francoist army, providing a plus of modernity to its antiquated forces. With outstanding participation in the crossing of the strait of the Afr
The HMS Petard she was one of those four destroyers. She was very popular with her flotilla mates for her reliability in sightings and her precision in maneuvering. Both qualities were the product of the punctilious obsession of Captain Thornton, a veteran of anti-submarine warfare in the North Atla
Focusing more specifically on the arrival of the Vikings in Ireland and its relations with the local Gaelic peoples also seem of little importance if we compare them with its great adventures in Iceland and the North Atlantic, in England and the West, and of course in the East, at the hands of the V
This was intended to control the Sultanate, that it was deeply indebted to European countries, and at the same time satisfy some of the demands of Kaiser Wilhelm II, its main creditor, who did not see with good eyes the growing French interventionism in North Africa (this last circumstance would lea
Herlth crouched behind a hastily heaped embankment of earth the night before, sinking deeper into the ground as shells whizzed and hissed around them. He was a former Austrian Uhlans (Lancers) officer at the time serving in the 11,000-man Turkish-Egyptian Army commanded by General William Hicks Pash
The Risala by Ibn Fadlan It is not very prodigal in fantastic stories and not at all prone to supernatural explanations of what is observed. What the Muslim sage is describing in this passage are the northern lights that he observed on his trip to Russia, on the banks of the Volga, in the middle of
As is well known, the attack failed after that three battleships were put out of action by fire from the coastal batteries. This failure laid the foundations for the subsequent decision to execute the amphibious operation to land troops on the Galípoli peninsula. , carried out on April 25, which onl
The name “goths ” is frequently quoted in ancient literary sources, both in Greek and Latin, from the 1st century AD. C.:in Strabo (Geography VII.1.3); in Pliny (History Natural IV.11.99) in the form of guttones; in Tacitus (Germ ania 44.1) calling them gothones and gotones (Annals II.62.2); and in
But Pizarro was not satisfied with fortune, especially after learning of the conquest of the great Mexica confederation by his nephew Hernán Cortés (see Awake Ferro Modern History #12:The Conquest of Mexico ); he longed for another great empire to conquer and a rulership with which to polish his lin
The thirty-three communist officials gathered around The table barely moved and Sverdlov then urged his comrades to ratify that decision of the local communists. There was a silence. Lenin he left for a moment a note that he was writing for the Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Georgy Chicherin, and ex
It is therefore not surprising that the importance of the site was recognized early; According to the geographer Strabo, a native of nearby Pontus, the legendary Babylonian queen Semiramis founded in Zela a stronghold. The city grew as a communications hub when the Persians connected it with one of
The word comes from the Latin GERMANUS ’, brother . At the beginning of the 16th century, the Germanía was the brotherhood formed by the guilds of Valencia and Mallorca that promoted a war against the nobles; Starting from Valencia, a city where the bad life had developed enormously, it spreads as
Since the birth of the Fighting Basques Project of the Sancho de Beurko Association we developed a concept (that of the support groups) that, although it seems little more than an extravagance of ours, could very well be extended to other groups of historical reenactment who work on memorial issues
Inazo Nitobe wrote his famous study of Bushido in 1900 . It said: Honorable, austere and traditionalist, apparently the samurai The truth is that Japan adopted the use of gunpowder for military purposes somewhat late:the Chinese already used cannons and explosives during the Jin and Song dynasties,
The Stuart royal house she was the rightful trustee of Scotland in the same way that the Highland chiefs and Lowland heads of families were, by custom, the protectors of her kinsmen. Dynastic legitimacy was perceived as the source of justice and the basis of government, but both were threatened in S
Hermann Bix served in the 4th Panzer Division (MPa). He was one of the successful tank crew chiefs of the German army. But his best moment was on March 22, 1945, when the war was effectively decided. Bix was born in Silesia in 1914. He enlisted in the army in 1935. In 1941 he found himself with the
The revolutionary Olga Benário Prestes was sent to Brazil by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with the mission of guaranteeing the safety of Luís Carlos Prestes. Olga Benário she was a German revolutionary who was prominent in the Communist Party of Germany and the Soviet Union. After receiv
On February 23, 2022, Ukrainian tanks park near the front line with the self-declared pro-Russian breakaway state Donetsk Peoples Republic. • EYEPRESS NEWS/SHUTTERSTOCK/SIPA Ukraine shares a dual ethnic heritage with Russia, dating back to the interbreeding of Slavic and Varangian cultures, and
Édgard Tupët-Thomé , born April 19, 1920 in Bourg-la-Reine, is a French soldier, companion of the Liberation. After obtaining his baccalaureate, he entered the Higher School of Catholic Theology in Reims. But having little vocation, he decided to enlist in the army. In October 1938, he preceded the