A character of humble origins named Ahmad ibn Būya he takes Baghdad in the year 946, holding hostage, in practical terms, the very Caliph al-Mustaqfi. Ahmad ibn Būya comes from the Daylam region, north of present-day Iran and on the shores of the Caspian. He, along with his two brothers, gather a pr
If they tell us about a western globetrotter fighting on the Middle East front of World War I and that he had written his memoirs, most of us will think of Lawrence of Arabia. Few will know that two years before he published in London the first English edition, and limited to his friends, of his boo
November 23, 1248 the hosts of the king Ferdinand III [1], made up of members of Hispanic royalty, both Christian and Muslim, the latter vassals of the Holy King [2], Ricos Omes [3], fixeddalgos [4] and the prelates and members of the religious and military orders [5] entered Seville. All of them,
On February 27, 1943, the US 1st Infantry Division , with Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr. in command, he left the front line to rest for ten days at Marsott, northwest of Tébessa, where he assembled all his elements for the first time in the campaign. As Allens forces moved into the town of Gafsa, the mo
Despite the drama of COVID-19, that has weighed down practically all cultural expressions, the three years that have passed since the publication of the book Basque combatants in the Second World War at the Desperta Ferro publishing house they have helped us to continue working on the main lines of
Gunpowder gradually breaks into Europe from the late 13th century through Muslims and Byzantines , connectors of Europe with the Far East, where its formula was discovered around the 9th century. Like any evolutionary process, the adaptation of gunpowder to warfare in the West followed a path of gra
The beginning of the fourteenth century was not easy for Castile . The death of Sancho IV in 1295 marked the beginning of an extremely turbulent period. The succession dispute of the infantes de la Cerda, supported by the Aragonese king Jaime II, reached its peak during the minority of Fernando IV (
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
Christmas day 1979 happened what it was perceived worldwide as a massive, surprising and highly efficient invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union . The Western bloc saw this intervention as a brazen act of aggression by a totalitarian state. From Moscows perspective, however, it was a limited co
On that day, the 7th Cavalry it was not organized as it had been when it left Fort Lincoln the previous month, with four battalions of three companies spread over two wings. A few days ago, and after the relative fiasco of the expedition to the Tongue River by the left wing of the 7th under Major Re
The disaster in Sicily shook the battered foundations that supported the Athenian hegemony, whose splendor languished as the Peloponnesian War progressed. The debacle of Alcibiades and his companions It was not one more defeat in this exhausting armed conflict, but a definitive turning point in the
wars, invasions and conquests bring I get language changes , and the case of the Spanish presence in the Philippines and the Malaysian-Indonesian area could not be different. Some dialects of Spanish persist today in that region, originally carried by the soldiers who had the misfortune to end up in
For millennia history was considered a literary genre. The fact that the speeches of the protagonists of the chronicles were a mere expressive resource was so accepted among the Roman readership that when Tacitus, author of superb speeches such as that of Calgaco at the battle of Mons Graupius, repr
The historical background of the Barbaren series could not be more attractive. A succession of military campaigns, beginning in 12 BC, had given Rome control of the German territory between the Rhine and the Elbe. In 9 AD Publius Quintilius Varus was designated as legate of the Germania Magna with
The novel A hopeless scoundrel has been written by Ángel Miranda, author of two of the most successful Spanish historical comics of recent years:Swords of the End of the World and Lezo , which in 2020 broke all records for a work of fiction financed by crowdfunding. Throughout this first voyage, the
Mozo means young as well as servant; that is, a gentleman of high birth could be a waiter, that is, be of youthful age, and a middle-aged man could be a waiter, since that –horse-handler, spur-handler, chamber-handler, mule-handler, toilet…– it was his job. With the waiters [servants] of the soldier
The life and work of Pierre Lepoivre , an officer in the Army of Flanders and a civil architect, always loyal to the Spanish Crown, make clear the great transformations that military architecture and engineering underwent in the transition from the 16th to the 17th century, which significantly alte
It is well known how diseases transmitted unintentionally by the Spanish (and their African slaves) who moved to the Indies from the end of the 15th century had a devastating effect on the native American populations. Although with different opinions, not only on the scope of the various conditions
In 1659, a year marked by the signature of the Peace of the Pyrenees , which put an end to a quarter of a century of war between France and Spain, the ambassador of the Republic of Venice in this kingdom, Domenico Zane, wrote a report that revealed the fateful internal situation of the once powerful
In the Spanish collective imagination it is well established that the Battle of Villalar , which occurred on April 23, 1521, was the end of the War of the Communities, which pitted the rebels of the cities of Castile against Carlos V. But was the battle of Villalar really the end of the war? The tru
Peter I (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov, in Russian), better known as the name of Peter the Great (Piotr Veliki, in Russian) was born on June 9 (May 30), 1672 in Moscow and died on February 8 (January 28), 1725 in Saint Petersburg. Son of Alexis I (1629-1676) and Natalia Narychkina (1651-1694), he was T
Even today, the history of ancient Egypt is often understood independently of that of Africa, Egyptologists having long tended to link this territory to the Middle East more than to the African continent. However, the geographical evidence is there:Egypt is African! And it is all the more so since
View of the choir of the Sainte-Chapelle, built in Paris to house the relics collected by Saint Louis in the 13th century • ISTOCK Relics are the remains (from the Latin reliqua ) bodies of Christ or saints. This is not only their remains, but also everything they owned or objects they came into
The Yokosuka MXY7 Oka (cherry blossom) was the Japanese flying bomb. However, unlike the German V1 Oka, it was headed towards the target by a kamikaze pilot. The Oka first flew in November 1944. It entered service in early 1945 and a total of 852 were built. It developed a maximum speed of 648 k