British West Africa , compilation of widely separated areas in West Africa managed by Great Britain during the colonial era. These included Sierra Leone , Gambia , Nigeria (with British Cameroon) and the Gold Coast (including the Gold Coast Crown Colony, the Asante Empir
Ross and Cromarty , historical region, Northern Scotland , spans the width of the country from the North Sea east to Atlantic to the west. It includes Lewis (part of the island Lewis and Harris ) on the Outer Hebrides . Britannica Quiz Discover the England, Scotland and W
Old Castile , Spanish Castilla la Vieja , historical provincial region, North Central Spain , generally including the boundaries reached by the Kingdom of Castile in the 11th century. She touches the Bay of Biscay to the north and is to the south through the ranges of the Sierra de
Cis-Sutlej States , Indian principalities, mainly Sikh, became important in the early 19th century when their fate was balanced between the British on the one hand and Ranjit Singh from the Sikhs on the other side. They were called Cis- (Latin:On This Side [of]) Sutlej by the British because
Livonia , German Livonia , lands on the east coast of the Baltic Sea north of Lithuania; The name was originally applied by the Germans in the 12th century to the territory of the Livs, a Finno-Ugric people whose settlements were centered on the estuaries of the Western Dvina and Gauja
Mataram , great kingdom in Java lasting from the late 16th to the 18th centuries when the Dutch in Indonesia came into power . Mataram was originally a vassal of Pajang, but it grew powerful under Senapati (later known as Adiwijoyo) who defeated Pajang and became the first king of Matara
Anatolia , Turkish Anadolu , also Called Asia Minor , the peninsula that today the Asian part of the Turkey makes . Due to its location at the point where the continents meet Asia and Europe from the beginning of civilization, Anatolia was a crossroads for numerous peoples who
Wartburg , lock , known in German history and Legend , standing on a steep hill overlooking the city Eisenach , Thuringia , Germany . The hill was fortified as early as 1080. The Landgrave Hermann I. of Thuringia (died 1217) rebuilt the castle and made it the seat of a l
African Meeting House , meeting house built in 1806 and located at 46 Joy Street in Boston , Massachusetts, USA, is the oldest standing Church for African American in the United States . It was one of four separate churches, two of which (including the African Meeting House) were
Neustria , during the Merovingian period (6th - 8th centuries) of the early medieval Europa, the west Frankish kingdom, in contrast to Austrasia, the eastern kingdom. Neustria was the new land (French neuf ; German new ), i.e. the area that the Franks had settled since they settled
Beira , former principality and historical province, north-central Portugal , from the shores of the extendable Douro River in the north to the upper reaches of the Tagus in the south-east and from the Spanish border in the east to the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The region was retak
Tabs , site of paleoanthropological excavations in a deep rock shelter at the rim Carmels looking at the Mediterranean north Israel . Artifacts , discovered in a long sequence of deposits at this site, document patterns of change in stone tool manufacture during the Lower and
Bouri , site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Awash River Valley in the Afar region in Ethiopia , known for its 2.5-million-year-old remains of Australopithecus garhi . Animal bones found there show cutting marks - some of the earliest evidence of the use of stone tools in t
Isauria , old Binnen Kreis south-central Anatolia . Its inhabitants, a hill tribe described by Greco-Roman authors as warlike and uncivilized, were conquered by the Roman general Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus in a three-year campaign, 76–74 v . Your country with its capital, Isaur
Comtat-Venaissin , also Comtat or Called Venaissin , former province France and papal enclave, north and northeast of Dauphiné , south of Durance River , to the east of the Provence and to the west of the Rhône limited . It includes the current Department b
Bremen , former duchy, Germany . Its between the bottom Weser and the lower Elbe and northwest of the former duchy Brunswick Lüneburg and covers an area of 5,200 km². It became an archbishopric in the 13th century and a duchy in 1648 under Swedish rule. 1715 it became part of
Lindsey , an early Anglo-Saxon kingdom and bishopric, probably eng with the modern districts East Lindsey and West Lindsey in Lincolnshire. It was an area of early settlement by the Angles and was ruled by its own kings until the late 8th century. Northumbria had controlled Lindse
Gallia Comata (Latin:long-haired Gaul ), in Roman antiquity also Tres Galliae (three Gauls), the land of Gaul comprising the three provinces (1) Aquitaine, west of Bay of Biscay and bordered on the south by the Pyrenees; (2) Celtica (or Gallia Lugdunensis) with Lugdunum (Lyon) as
Essex , one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England; ie that of the East Saxons. As an area of early settlement, it probably originally encompassed the area of modern county Middlesex; London was its main location. Archaeological discoveries suggest that many of the new sett
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland , also Called Central African Federation , political entity created in 1953 and ending 31 December 1963, comprising the British settler-dominated colony of Southern Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) and the territories of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and Ny
Needless to say, the worst of all is not have premiered. In this case, finding yourself in your thirties and not being able to remember something because you have never done it is already more than worrying. Opportunities have not lacked you since you were very young, but you never took the step, wi
Zoroastrianism, or Masdeism, became the religion from state Persian on century VI a.C . This belief was replaced by Islam only around the 7th century AD. after the fall of the Sasanian Empire. In Iran (ancient Persia), a small part of the population still practices Zoroastrianism, whose largest num
Lyoudmila Mikhaïlovna Pavlichenko or Lioudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlichenko (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) was a Soviet sniper of World War II. Credited with 309 enemy kills, she was honored with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in Bila Tserkva, in the Ukrainian SSR, on July 12, 1916, Li
The summer of 1566 saw the last attempt of the Turkish sultan Suleiman the so-called magnificent, to neutralize the Habsburgs, also occupying Vienna. On May 1, 1566 Suleiman, at the head of a huge army that according to some sources numbered 300,000 men. Other sources state 100-200,000 men. On Ju