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1 day ago · Bas relief at Angkor Wat, c. 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The Vedic and smrti laws of India reflected a concern with preserving the male seed of the three upper castes; and the religious courts imposed various penances for the woman or excommunication for a priest who provided an abortion. [3]
2 days ago · [1] [2] They primarily resided on the territories of modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, northern Greece and north-western Turkey. The exact origin of the Thracian people is uncertain, but it is believed that they descended from a purported mixture of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Early European Farmers. [3]
4 days ago · Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.
4 days ago · Romania - Transylvania, Romanians, History: Outside the principalities lay Transylvania, whose government and economy were dominated in the countryside by the Calvinist and Roman Catholic Hungarian nobility and in the cities by the Lutheran German-speaking Saxon upper class. A large Romanian population lived there also, but Romanians were excluded from public affairs and privileges because ...
2 days ago · Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual; Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII; John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime; Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international; Georges Haupt (1928–1978), Romania, Hungary, political history, labor history, history of literature
3 days ago · Romania: Bubonic plague: 60,000 [130] 1817–1819 Ireland typhus epidemic 1817–1819 Ireland Typhus: 65,000 [131] First cholera pandemic: 1817–1824 Asia, Europe Cholera: 100,000+ [132] 1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 [133] 1821 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1821 Barcelona, Spain ...
2 days ago · Chernivtsi is located in the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently shared between Romania (south) and Ukraine (north). Chernivtsi is located in the southwest of Ukraine, in the eastern Carpathians, on the border between the Carpathians and the East European Plain, 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Romania.
