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2 days ago · In January 1904, the Herero people, who were led by Samuel Maharero, and the Nama people, who were led by Captain Hendrik Witbooi, rebelled against German colonial rule. On 12 January 1904, they killed more than 100 German settlers in the area of Okahandja.
2 days ago · The emergence of the Hohenzollerns of Prussia as rivals of the Habsburgs and the beginning of the Austro-Prussian dualism created the possibility of reversing the process of civic decentralization that had prevailed in Germany since the late Middle Ages.
4 days ago · The earliest attempt to bring Roman Christianity to the Prussians dates from 997. The first Danish church was built in Courland about 1070, and the first Danish missionary was sent to Estonia about a century later. In 1219–20 Valdemar II, king of Denmark, conquered much of northern Estonia.
3 days ago · The Chechen genocide [9] refers to the mass casualties carried out on the Chechen people during the various stages of the Russia–Chechnya conflict since the second half of the 18th to early 21st centuries.
3 days ago · During these civil wars, Louis took side with his brother Charles the Bald and confirmed this alliance in the famous Oath of Strasbourg in 842 (an important political and linguistic document that contains versions of the Romance language and Old High German).
2 days ago · The Prussians reported their losses at 2,320 killed, 5,980 wounded and 700 captured or missing. By the next day, on 2 September, Napoleon III surrendered and was taken prisoner with 104,000 of his soldiers.
5 days ago · Throughout its long history, Holy Etchmiadzin has been at the center of spiritual and national identity for Armenians. Located in Vagharshapat, Armenia, it is one of the oldest churches in the world, having survived numerous invasions and natural disasters. Its origins trace back to the early 4th century, when Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the ...
