Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The one known as the Angevin Empire or Plantagenet Empire came to extend from Scotland to the Pyrenees. To the territories contributed by Henry of Anjou (Henry II of England) as an inheritance from his mother the Empress Matilda and his father Godfrey of An
In 1946 the situation on the northern borders of Greece could, indulgently, be described as fluid. The guerilla war had officially started after the attack on Litochoro and already guerilla groups were carrying out attacks based on the neighboring socialist brother countries. In some cases foreig
The decision of the Turks to invade Cyprus was made long before the coup against Makarios. The Turks, with their well-known oriental cunning, were simply waiting for the right conditions. The Turks knew the Greek weaknesses firsthand and exploited them to the fullest. For the occupation of Cypru
It was January 400 BC. The Myrians had already completed nine months of marches and battles. They had started in March 401 BC. from Sardis and was now many thousands of kilometers away from the welcoming Ionian shores. But they had to continue through the countries of the Chalivians and the Taochian