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2 days ago · e. Princes of East Circassia. Presidents of the Circassian Confederation. Circassia [b] ( / sɜːrˈkæʃə / sir-KASH-ə ), also known as Zichia, [8] [9] was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus, along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. [10] [11] It was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Russo-Circassian War (1763 ...
2 days ago · Human historyHuman Era. In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans.
3 days ago · In the 1970s, the term was used as a way of linking the experiences, issues, and struggles of groups of colonized people across international borders. At this time 'indigenous people (s)' also began to be used to describe a legal category in Indigenous law created in international and national legislation.
5 days ago · Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler ( Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula ( / ˈdrækjʊlə, - jə -/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often considered one of the most important ...
Apr 5, 2024 · The idea that Europeans “discovered” America in 1492 has been a basic assumption of American history, but it would be more accurate to say that Columbus's voyages led to the “first permanent arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.”. Millions of people and dozens of cultures thrived in this half of the globe long before Europeans ...
2 days ago · In the 1470s, Portuguese trading ships reached the Gold Coast. In 1471, the Portuguese captured Tangier, after years of attempts. Eleven years later, the fortress of São Jorge da Mina in the town of Elmina on the Gold Coast in the Gulf of Guinea was built.
4 days ago · The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places.
