Amalric was a Visigoth king Theodoric sought the collaboration of the Hispano-Roman aristocracy; he created the prefecture of the praetorium of Gaul (based in Arles) with juridical and legal functions, and put a Hispano-Roman aristocrat at its head; while the military power of the Visigoth kingdom
With the occupation of Albania, in April 1939, Italy implemented its conquest plan against Greece, which initially envisaged the surprise occupation of Epirus and Corfu and, in a second stage, the occupation of of Western Macedonia. Faced with the constant challenges of the Italians and the developm
At the end of the 19th century, the domain of the south-eastern tip of Africa was divided between the British Crown and the Boers or Afrikaners , settlers of Dutch origin, successors of the first Europeans who had colonized the region in the 17th century. In 1886, Queen Victoria –after successive c
Practically at the same time that Marco Polo arrived in China, a Chinese monk of Mongolian origin, Rabban Bar Sauma , he undertook a journey that would end up taking him through Byzantium and medieval Europe and meet emperors, popes and kings. From Mongol-dominated Beijing to Capetian France, Bar Sa