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23 ore fa · Showdown in Champagne. In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders. The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, as depicted in the Chronica Hungarorum. The article that follows forms part of The So-Called Dark Ages ...
3 giorni fa · Life. Carlo I was the son of Count Leonardo I Tocco of Cephalonia and Leukas by Maddalena de' Buondelmonti, sister of Esau de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Ioannina. [1] Leonardo I Tocco, who was count of Cephalonia from 1357 until his death in 1376, as well as duke of Leukas from 1362, was himself the son of Guglielmo Tocco, governor of Corfu for ...
4 giorni fa · Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related ...
3 giorni fa · Biografia Infanzia ed educazione. L'arciduchessa Maria Amalia era l'ottava e più ribelle figlia dell'imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero Francesco I, duca di Lorena e di Bar (1729/1737), poi Granduca di Toscana (1737/1765), Duca di Parma (1738/1748) e infine imperatore eletto nel 1745, e di Maria Teresa d'Asburgo, regina d'Ungheria e di Boemia, arciduchessa d'Austria.
3 giorni fa · After the fall of Odoacer in 493, Theodoric, who had lived in Constantinople during his youth, ruled Italy on his own. Thus, by suggesting that Theodoric conquer Italy as his Ostrogothic kingdom, Zeno maintained at least a nominal supremacy in that western land while ridding the Eastern Empire of an unruly subordinate.
3 giorni fa · Japan. Einheitslinienschiffe. Tango – ex russ. Poltawa (1894), 1905 in Port Arthur (heute: Lüshunkou) erbeutet. Sagami – ex russ. Pereswet (1898), 1905 in Port Arthur erbeutet. Suō – ex russ. Pobeda (1900), 1905 in Port Arthur erbeutet. Hizen – ex russ.
23 ore fa · Internal unrest and Majorian. The Western Roman Empire during the reign of Majorian in AD 460. During his four-year-long reign from 457 to 461, Majorian restored Western Roman authority in Hispania and most of Gaul. Despite his accomplishments, Roman rule in the west would last less than two more decades.
