Frankish Campaigns in Aquitaine
The Frankish conquest of Aquitaine began as the Franks expanded their territory into the southwestern region of present-day France. Under the leadership of Clovis I an...
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The Frankish conquest of Aquitaine began as the Franks expanded their territory into the southwestern region of present-day France. Under the leadership of Clovis I an...
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Odaenathus rose to power in Palmyra amid the crisis of the Roman Empire in the mid-3rd century. Following the capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian by the Persians, Pa...
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c. 1343–1355 — Stefan Dušan's Serbian Empire expands across much of Albania, Epirus and Macedonia. After Dušan's death, the empire fragments and local noble families i...
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c. 3100 BCE–2026 CE — Modern Egyptians live in the same Nile landscape that supported pharaonic civilization, but language, religion, political institutions and popula...
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1 January 1944 — By 1944 American submarines are destroying Japanese merchant shipping at a rate Japan cannot replace. Oil, food, raw materials and military supplies b...
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Crusader and Venetian powers control important Greek territories, islands and ports.
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15 March 1939 — The occupation of the Czech lands gives Germany control over a major Central European industrial base, including important arms factories such as Škoda...
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By the 15th century, most of mainland Greece comes under Ottoman control, though some Venetian territories remain.
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30 September 1938 — Britain, France, Germany and Italy agree that Czechoslovakia must surrender the Sudetenland to Germany. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ...
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