Göbekli Tepe , neolithic Site near Şanlıurfa to the southeast of Turkey . The site believed to be a sanctuary of ritual importance is carved through layers of Megaliths marked and is dated to the 9th to 10th millennium B.C. Christ treasured . Britannica Quiz The Middle Eas
Roxburghshire , also Called Roxburgh , historic southeast county Scotland , along the English border. It covers an area stretching from the valleys of the rivers Tweed and Teviot in the north to the Cheviot Hills in the southeast and the as Liddesdale known valley extends to th
Basan , country in Old Testament is frequently cited and later important in the Roman Empire; Its in todays Syria . Basan was the northernmost of the three ancient divisions of eastern Palestine, and in the Old Testament it was proverbial for its rich pastures and dense forests. In Ne
French Equatorial Africa , French- Africa Equatoriale Française (AEF) , together four French areas in Central Africa from 1910 to 1959. In 1960, the former territory of Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari), to which Chad ( Chad) was attached in 1920 to Central African Republic and the Repu
Nakbe , an archaeological site in the dense tropical forest in the north Guatemala , is considered one of the earliest ceremonial centers of Maya Culture . Nakbe was first identified from aerial photographs taken in 1930 and examined (and named) by archaeologist Ian Graham in 1962. Sys
Bit Adini , old Aramaic kingdom in Mesopotamia, lies on either side of the middle Euphrates south of Carchemish . Probably founded in the 10th century bc , it was conquered by the Assyrians at Shalmaneser III in 856. The capital, Til Barsib (Til Barsip; modern Tall al-Aḥmar
Magadha , ancient kingdom of India, situated in what is now west-central Bihar state, in northeastern India. It was the nucleus of several larger kingdoms or empires between the 6th century bce and the 8th century ce. Read More on This Topic India:Magadhan ascendancy Political activity in the 6th-5
Pannonia , Province of the Roman Empire, corresponds to todays West Hungary and split East Austria as well as parts of several Balkan states, especially Slovenia , Croatia and Serbia (Vojvodina). The Pannonians were mainly Illyrians, but there were some Celts in the weste
Field of gold cloth , in European history the meeting point between Guînes and Ardres at Calais in France, where Henry VIII From England and Franz I. of France and his followers assembled between June 7th and 24th, 1520. The castles in both villages fell into ruin, and therefore splendi
Greenfield Village , collection of nearly 100 historic buildings on an 80-acre site in Dearborn to the southeast of Michigan , United States. It was founded in 1933 by an industrialist Henry Ford , there building from across USA misplaced or reconstructed . The village includes F
Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , German in full Botanical Garden And Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem oldest botanical garden in Germany . Established in the 17th century as a royal garden for flowers, medicinal plants, vegetables and hops (for the royal brewery),
Middlesex , historic southeast county England , with central London north of the Thames and surrounding areas to the north and west. Most of Middlesex has been 1965 part of for management purposes Greater London . The The Thames was key to the history of Middlesex. From about
Hesse-Darmstadt , German Hesse-Darmstadt , former landgrave, grand duchy and state Germany . It was founded in 1567 in the division of old Hesse; After Hessen-Kassel was taken over by Prussia in 1866, Hessen-Darmstadt was commonly known simply as Hessen. Hessen-Darmstadt was origina
Elymais , an ancient Parthian vassal state located east of the lower Tigris and usually as part of the larger district Susiana is viewed . It covered much of the area of the biblical region of Elam, which roughly corresponds to the modern region of Khūzestān in the Iran matches . Alth
Oldenburg , former German state, successively a countship, a duchy, a grand duchy, and a Country (state) , before he became one Government District (county) from Lower Saxony Country in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1946. As a result of the administrative reorganizati
Makapansgat , site of paleoanthropological excavations, one of the oldest known cave sites in South Africa, the Fossils from Australopithecus africanus . The Area around Makapansgat is about 150 miles north of Sterkfontein , an important site where numerous hominin (human a
Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet , in South Africa , administrative districts of Cape of Good Hope under the rule of Dutch East India Company . Founded in 1743 and 1786 respectively, they became centers of a frontier independence movement in the 1790s. With the continued expansion of c
Kromdraai , South African paleoanthropological site known for its fossils of Paranthropus robustus . Kromdraai is a limestone cave , which has occasionally had surface openings. The remains of hominins (members of the human lineage) found within are associated with animals believed to b
Spanish Netherlands ( approx. 1579–1713), Spanish provinces in the southern part of the Netherlands (corresponds roughly to todays Belgium and Luxembourg). Read more about this topic Belgium:The Spanish Netherlands Under Spanish rule, discontent increased in the Netherlands and
Black Castle , one of two sovereign states in Germany before 1918, came from the Thuringian lands, which were medieval Counts of Schwarzburg. Over the centuries, the Schwarzburg lands were divided, redistributed or consolidated until 1584 when the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwar
The world of religious institutions is more complex than it seems at first glance. For a layman, everything is reduced to regular clergy (those governed by a monastic rule) and secular clergy (independent priests and deacons), but then each one is subdivided into various types of institutions. Of th
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States. He was elected for two terms from 1829 to 1837. He was the military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces during the battle of New Orleans (1815) and the man at the base of the era J
If at the time we talked about the Nachthexen or Witches of the night , that is what the Germans called a group of women belonging to the 588th Night Bombardment Regiment of the Soviet Union who turned their nights into real nightmares, this time it is a single woman who is the protagonist of sowing
To approach the history of women in the Middle Ages is to play hide and seek with shadows, silhouettes without faces or bodies. Almost dreamed of, these ladies of yesteryear? No, of course. Like a curtain-raiser after a long wait, portraits, startling in their embodied precision, will appear at the