Brandenburg , Margrave or Mark, then an constituency Holy Roman Empire in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the core of dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded. After the World War I was it is a province of country Prussia in Germany . After th
Troas , also Troad called , the country of Troy , ancient area mainly defined by the northwest projection Asia Minor (modern Turkey ) into the Aegean . It extended from the Gulf of Edremit (ancient Adramyttion) in the south to the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles
Jinji , also Gingi written , location of an almost inaccessible Fortress, by the Hindu rulers of the Vijayanagar empire was built ( approx. 1347–1642). It is about 130 km southwest of Chennai (Madras) in the Indian state Tamil Nadu . 1638 the fortress was by the Mu
Angkor , archaeological site in present-day Northwest Cambodia is 6 km north of the modern city Siĕmréab . It was the capital of Khmer (Cambodian) Empire from the 9th to the 15th centuries, a period considered a classic era of Cambodian history. The most imposing monuments are Angkor
Reuss , two former German principalities merged into Thuringia 1920. In their last years they existed off two blocks separated by part of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. The southern and larger block or Oberland with Schleiz and Greiz as capitals was east of the Kingdom of Saxony, south of Bava
Decapolis , a league of 10 ancient Greek cities in the east Palestine , after the Roman conquest of Palestine in 63 v. , as Pompey the Great the Middle East for Roms benefit and for his own benefit reorganized . The name Decapolis also roughly describes this contiguous area
Karīm Shahīr , an ancient mound near the archaeological site of Jarmo in the hills to the northeast of the Iraq . Karīm Shahīr is located on a terrace at an altitude of about 800 meters near a small river. It has Artifacts spawned showing clear evidence both of knowledge of grain cu
Tiwanaku , also Tiahuanaco or Tiwanacu written , an important pre-Columbian civilization known from ruins of the same name located near the south bank of the Titicacasees in Bolivia . The Tiwanaku main site became the UNESCO Added World Heritage List in the year 2000.
Kasanje , historical kingdom founded by the Imbangala around 1630 along the upper Cuango River (in todays Angola ). By the mid-17th century, the Kingdom of Kazanje had emerged as a dominant power along the Cuango, as it allied with the Portuguese in the region and often opposed the neighb
Saxony , German- Saxony , French- Saxony , one of the most important areas of German history. Applied:(1) before the Display 1180, to an extensive far north German region including Holstein , but mainly to the west and southwest of the estuary and the lower course of the lounger
Dacia was an ancient area Central Europe, that of the Carpathians and much of the historical region Transylvania (modern north-central and west Romania ) covers . The Dacian Race used to have territories south of the Danube and north of the mountains, and these lands
Lycaonia , an old region inside Anatolia north of the Stiergebirge , inhabited by a fierce and warlike aboriginal people who grazed sheep and wild donkeys on the desolate central highlands. Little is known about the early Lycaonians. They appear to have escaped Persian rule, but later s
La Chapelle-aux-Saints , cave location in the Near the village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints in the center of France where the bones of an adult Neanderthal were found in 1908. Studies on the remains published by the French anthropologist in 1911–13 Marcellin Boule became the classic descr
Darfur (Arabic:Country of fur ) is also called indicates western Darfur , the historical region of the Billād al-Sūdān (Arabic:Land of the Blacks) and roughly corresponds to the westernmost Part of the present Sudan . It lay between Kordofan to the east and Wadai to the west, and exten
Tuzigoot National Monument , archaeological site in Central Arizona , USA It is located in the Verde River Valley, 3 km east of Clarkdale. The Montezuma Castle National Monument is about 32 km southeast. The 1939 monument occupies an area of 3.4 square kilometers. Its name comes from
Tonkin , during French colonial times also Tongking , Northern Vietnam , written . The term Tonkin has never been officially used by the Vietnamese to describe their country. Tonkin focused on the densely populated and intense cultured Red River Delta. It was north of the
Canada West , in Canadian history also Called Upper Canada , the region in Canada now known as Ontario is known . From 1791 to 1841 the region was known as Upper Canada and from 1841 to 1867 as Canada West, although the two names continued to be used interchangeably. West Canada was
Anglo-Egyptian Condominium , the joint British and Egyptian government that ruled eastern Sudan from 1899 to 1955. It was established by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreements of January 19 and July 10, 1899 and lasted, with some later amendments, until the formation of sovereign , indepen
Salé , site of paleoanthropological excavations near Rabat , Morocco , known for the discovery of a skull of the human species ( Homo ) in 1971 . The site has been tentatively dated to 400,000 years and contained some animal fossils, but there were no associated stone tools. Bri
Kotosh , pre-Columbian site, near modern city Huánuco in todays Central Highlands Peru , known for its early temple structures . These earliest buildings, some of which have interior walls niches and mud relief decorative friezes, date to the end of the Late Pre-Pottery Period (
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry, born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon and disappeared in flight on July 31, 1944 at sea, off Marseille, Mort pour la France, is a French writer, poet, aviator and reporter. Born into a family descended from the French nobility, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spe
apprehension from Congress in the minds of kings When the Indian Independence Act 1947 was declared, a provision was made in its section 8 that on 15 August 1947, the sovereignty of the British government over the native states would end and it would be transferred again to the native states. Many
Although the best known and most popular part of the history of Alexander the Great was the expedition he led against Persia, before that he had to impose his authority over Greece and during that process, in parallel, he was forced to subdue the rebellion of the Illyrians. He could not let it grow
The known history of viet nam, over 2000 years long already, is fertile in upheavals. The Chinese invasions and the long periods of domination they entailed, the struggle for emancipation and territorial expansion, internal rivalry, the difficult unification of the Three Kys (Tonkin, Annam, Cochinch