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22 hours ago · Napoleon III. Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
22 hours ago · Like most Slovene ethnic territory, Maribor was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 Maribor became part of independent Slovenia.
Jun 4, 2024 · After centuries of Habsburg rule, the Prussian occupation of Silesia in 1742 meant a first deep rift. During and after World War I, everything fell victim to the destructive power of nationalism. The autochthonous ethnic group of the Silesians was hit harder than others by these upheavals, including in my family.
22 hours ago · The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus ( lit. 'Great State' in Kipchak Turkic ), [8] was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. [9] With the division of the Mongol Empire after 1259, it became a functionally separate khanate.
Jun 4, 2024 · The world of undifferentiated subjects and objects is deeply connected to tacit knowledge. This concept emerged from the milieu of East and Central Europe from individuals such as Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), a Hungarian-born Jewish scientist, and Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), born in Vienna, Austria.
22 hours ago · Bucharest is a beta global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art.
22 hours ago · Territorial changes of Slovak Republic from 1938 to 1947 (Red indicating areas which became a part of Hungary, due to the First Vienna Award. Changes on the border with Poland are missing) 2.6 million people lived within the 1939 borders of the Slovak State, and 85 percent had declared Slovak nationality on the 1938 census.
