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3 days ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area.
- Land
Europe - Geography, Climate, People: A contrast exists...
- People
Europe - Migration, Ethnicity, Religion: A scanty population...
- Geologic History
Europe - Geology, Tectonics, Plate Boundaries: The geologic...
- Europe Summary
Europe was the first of the world’s regions to develop a...
- Economy
Europe - Trade, Manufacturing, Services: Europe was the...
- Climate
Europe - Climate, Regions, Weather: As Francis Bacon, the...
- Tourism
Europe - Tourism, Culture, History: The outstanding growth...
- Religions
Europe - Religions, Faiths, Beliefs: The majority of primary...
- Cenozoic Igneous Provinces
Europe - Cenozoic, Igneous, Provinces: From about 60 to 50...
- Land
1 day ago · European strategic situation in 1805 before the War of the Third Coalition. In April 1805, Britain and Russia signed a treaty with the aim of removing the French from the Batavian Republic (roughly present-day Netherlands) and the Swiss Confederation.
3 days ago · A map of Europe in 1815 depicting Napoleonic France, Prussia, the Austrian Empire, and the boundary of the Germanic Confederation.
3 days ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
6 days ago · Prussia ( / ˈprʌʃə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions. It formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871.
4 days ago · Digitised images of court records surviving in the National Archives, Kew. Together with useful tools to help with the language, handwriting and layout. Click on the name of each monarch (Richard 1 to Victoria) to see what is available. Track down left hand column for year (1176-1879), then across to the courts.
4 days ago · Information from 325 probate inventories that were recorded between 1740 and 1810 in several counties of Virginia and Maryland.
