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Aug 5, 2020 · Australians and New Zealanders have long argued over who invented the pavlova, but the authors of a new book have found the dessert’s origins go back much further.
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- The Alemanni & Rome
- Engagements Against Rome
- The Frankish Conquest of The Alemanni
The Roman senator and historian Tacitus (56-117 CE) wrote of the Suevi in the 1st century CE, claiming they controlled the better part of the region known as Germania. He links the Alemanni with the Hermunduri, another Germanic tribe, but this claim has been contested by modern-day scholarship. The Suevi Tacitus depicts sound very much like the lat...
Although the Suevi have been identified with the later Alemanni, historians caution against equating the two without recognizing their differences over the centuries which separate Tacitus' account (98 CE) from Cassius Dio's (c. 229 CE). The scholar Guy Halsall writes, "It is unlikely that the situation which pertained in the mid-first century was ...
256 CE: Gregory of Tours (c. 538-594 CE) famously wrote of the Alemanni invasion of Gaul in 256 CE under their king Chrocus. Chrocus led his army across the land, destroying the cities, churches, t...259 CE: The Alemanni invaded Italy, ravaging the fertile Po Valley, until they were defeated at the Battle of Mediolanum by a Roman force led by emperor Gallienus.268 CE: The Battle of Benacus was fought in 268/269 CE between the emperor Claudius II (supported by the later Emperor Aurelian) and the Alemanni. The Alemanni, allied with the Juthungi, invaded no...271 CE: The Alemanni and Juthungi again invaded Italy, while the emperor Aurelian was busy repulsing Vandals on the Danube frontier. He marched his forces to meet the Alemanni threat but was ambush...First Julian, and then Valentinian I, entered into treaties with the confederacy of the people known as the Franks ("the fierce people"). In an effort to maintain the newly restored Roman city of Cologne, Julian blockaded the territory of the Franks, depriving them of much-needed trade goods, until they agreed to his terms. Collins comments on this...
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Aug 12, 2015 · A People Without a Country: The Gypsies. Persecuted around the world and still subject to discrimination in modern day Europe, we look into the fascinating history of the Gypsy people. In 1332, a Franciscan monk from Ireland visited the island of Crete.
Oct 31, 2021 · The Battle of Pavia was a decisive moment in the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg empire of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. February 24, 1525. A day that is not marked in infamy but in the blood of France.
- Riley Winters
Jan 12, 2018 · First Scandinavians migrated along two routes. Jakobsson, together with colleagues from Norway analysed fossil DNA from seven of the oldest human remains discovered in Scandinavia. Four specimens came from Gotland and Stora Karlsö in Sweden, and were first excavated in the 1800s and 1900s.
Jan 12, 2023 · In 2019, researchers published work based on genetic and linguistic evidence suggesting that sometime between 2200 and 500 years ago, people living in northwestern Alaska boated back across the Bering Sea into Siberia. But it wasn’t clear whether this gene flow of Native American ancestry back into Asia was commonplace or a one-off.
The early story of the Basque people was recorded by Roman classical writers, historians and geographers, such as Pliny the Elder, Strabo, Ptolemy and Pomponius Mela. The present-day Basque Country was, by the time of the Roman arrival in the Iberian Peninsula, inhabited by Aquitanian and Celtic tribes.
