The lives of people who lived in al-Andalus were more nuanced than what is commonly believed today.
Following the Fourth Crusade, the Crusaders partitioned the Byzantine Empire and established their own states. The most important was the Latin Empire in Constantinople.
While antisemitism was common throughout European society, from the 1880s onwards the Russian Empire witnessed frequent violent attacks on Jewish communities known as pogroms.
Immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s famous film, the mutiny aboard the Russian warship Potemkin was one of the most iconic moments of the 1905 Revolution.
Despite being a small country, Slovenia is packed with sites of historical significance to cater to all sorts of history aficionados.
The phrase “Let them eat cake” is falsely attributed to Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, to highlight her detachment from the lives of ordinary Frenchmen.
The Avignon papacy was a short period when the popes did not reside in their usual place, Rome, but settled in southeastern France.
A hero of great repute and fame, Lawrence of Arabia was an interesting and complex figure in British and Arab military history.
