French Shore , part of the coast of Newfoundland, where French fishermen were allowed to fish and then dry their catch France relinquished all other claims to the island in 1713; Newfoundland had previously been claimed by France despite being occupied by England. According to the Treaty
Joyeuse , French noble duchy of the 16th century. Its seat was in Joyeuse in the Vivarais Region of the Languedoc (in the modern department of Ardèche), the 13th century onwards from a branch of the House of Chateauneuf de Randon as Barony and from 1432 as Viscounty . Anne
Ternifine , also Called Tighenif , site of paleoanthropological excavations, about 20 km east of Mascara , Algeria , known for its remains of Homo erectus . Ternifine was mined in the 19th century for sand and numerous fossilized animal bones and Stone artifacts were recover
Cilicia , an old area Southern Anatolia which is represented by the Taurus Mountains to the north and west, the Anti-Taurus to the east, and the to the south Mediterranean . It is geographically divided into two contrasting regions, the western part being wild and mountainous and the eas
Holland , historical region of the Netherlands, divided into the provinces of North Holland (North Holland) and Zuidholland (South Holland) since 1840. It forms the flat, low-lying northwestern part of modern country. Read more about this topic History of Europe:Holland In 1664, the Eng
Cuba , former African kingdom inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is bordered by the Kasai and Lulua rivers to the southwest and the river to the north Sankuru River , a tributary of the Kasai. It was built around 1600 by migrants from the lower Kasai River founded and was
Paeonia , the country of Paeonians, originally including the entire Axius (Vardar) river valley and surrounding areas, in what is now Northern Greece , Macedonia and Western Bulgaria . The Paeonians, who were probably of mixed Thracian-Illyrian origin, were overthrown by the Persian inv
Assyria , kingdom Northern Mesopotamia , which became the center of one of the great empires of the ancient Middle East . It was in todays Northern Iraq and to the southeast the Turkey . A brief treatment of Assyria follows. For a full treatment see Mesopotamia, history of:
Viceroyalty of Peru , Spanish Virreinato de Peru , the second of the four viceroyalty Spain created to govern its territories in the Americas. The Viceroyalty was founded in 1543 and initially comprised all of South America under Spanish control except for the coast of present-day Ven
Transalpine Gaul , Latin Gallia Transalpina , in Roman antiquity, the country bounded by the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, and the Rhine is limited. It included todays France and Belgium and parts Germany , the Netherlands and the Switzerland . The
Uraha Hill , a northern paleoanthropological site Malawi, known for the discovery of an ancient human (genus) jawbone Homo ) 2.4 million years ago (mya). It resembles specimens between 1.9 and 1.8 mya from Koobi Fora , Kenya. The Uraha Hill specimen is one of the oldest occurrences o
Lothagam , site of northern paleoanthropological excavations Kenya southwest of the Turkana Sees (Rudolfsee ), known for a piece Jaw found there in 1967, which appears to be one of the oldest known hominin (member of the human lineage) fossils. The fossil is too fragmentary to be ident
Cumberland , Historic County, Far Northwest England , to the north of Scotland , east of historic counties Northumberland and Durham and south of historic counties Westmorland and Lancashire limited . Cumberland is currently part of the county Cumbria . Cumberland is o
Arago , site of paleoanthropological excavations near the town of Tautavel in France Pyrenees, where from 1964 to 1974 more than 50 copies of archaic Homo was dated between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. The Human remains include two robust and well-preserved jaws, which vary
Dvaravati , ancient kingdom Southeast Asia , which flourished from the 6th to the late 11th centuries. It was the first The Kingdom Mon became todays Thailand founded and played an important role as a propagator of Indian Culture . Dvaravati is in the lower Valley des Chao
Bhimbetka , a Row of natural rock shelters in the foothills of Vindhya Mountains , Central India . They are about 45 km south of Bhopal in west-central State Madhya Pradesh . Discovered in 1957, the complex consists of around 700 shelters and is one of the largest repositories
Bernicia was a in British history anglo-saxon Northern kingdom, which had permanently united with its neighbor in the last quarter of the 7th century Deira to the kingdom Northumbria . Bernicia stretched from maybe to River Tees north and eventually reached the Firth of Forth an
Tyrone , former county (until 1973), Northern Ireland . It was formed by the former counties Londonderry (north) and Fermanagh and Monaghan (south) and from the former county Armagh and Lough (See) Neagh (East). It had an area of 1,260 square miles (3,263 square kilometers). In th
Mecklenburg , Northeast Historical Region Germany , along the Baltic Coastal Plain , about 160 km east of the Bay of Lübeck. It is now included in the German Country (state) of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania ( see there ). Up to the 7th century n . Ch. Had the Slavic O
Boina , ephemeral kingdom of Sakalava Westerners Madagascar . Native from southern Madagascar, the Sakalava migrated up the west coast in the mid-17th century under the leadership of Andriandahifotsy. When he died, one of his sons succeeded in taking over the dominion of south-west Madag
The battle in the village of Husine was one of the last in 1939 in long-suffering Poland. From September 17, 1939, the country had also received the Soviet attack while fighting for survival against Hitlers Nazi hordes. The village in question is located 7 km north-east of Hrubiezów in the province
Hitler, since the Western Allies refused to recognize his conquest of Poland and insisted on war against Germany, was obliged to attack them. Time was working in favor of the West, at least as Hitler believed, because the German economy was also suffering and the Soviets were becoming more demanding
These criteria were taken into account for obtaining of company captaincies. In the times of Felipe II, 10 or 12 years of service were required and to go through all the lower sections of the ranks. The system had certain exceptions:the nobles had more facilities for promotion due to their status, a
The list of inventions and discoveries made by man begins with fire and the wheel. Horseback is nowhere to be found in this list, while horseback has played as important a role in creating the world as fire and the wheel. The Roman Empire was also built not only on fire and wheel, but also on horseb