This is a real press release from the Department of State of the most powerful country on the planet In case you missed it, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned into a raging lunatic when NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly pushed him on his...
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Like several other major European dynasties, the earliest recorded history of the House of Wettin is found in the tenth century. Through conquest, the family took control of Castle Wettin,.
The area that is now Albania fell to Ottoman rule in the late 15th century. At some point in the 16th century, the head of a Kosovar family named Zogolli.
The Hashemite dynasty traces its lineage to the prophet Muhammed's grandfather, and in particular to Muhammed's daughter Fatima. The Hashemite played a prominent role in early Islamic politics, and from the 13th century on held the title of Sherif (or Emir) of Mecca. The Hashemite...
Tibet's existence as an independent state is shrouded in controversy. Various empires controlled parts of the Tibetan plateau from the sixth century onward, around the time that Buddhism spread to.
In 1505, a Portuguese naval expedition established control over the island of Zanzibar, long a trade destination in the Western Indian. Archaeological evidence indicates that the island has been used.
In 1806, a 36 year old Albanian man named Muhammed Ali was appointed Viceroy of Egypt. The son of a tobacco merchant, Muhammed had distinguished himself as an officer in the Ottoman Army in battles against the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's invasion had done...
Montenegro emerged as a territorial unit around the 14th century. Although the Ottoman Turks conquered part of modern Montenegro, and Venice exerted considerable influence over the rest, the antecedents of.
Patrick Lyon at the Lede has a post on several surviving deposed monarchs, including Michael I of Romania, Simeon II of Bulgaria, Constantine II of Greece, and Kigeli V of.
Early in the nineteenth century, the Durrani Empire, which had governed Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan since 1747, began to collapse. The Durrani Empire came about through an effort by Afghan tribesmen to throw off Persian rule, and Afghanistan became, more or less, the territory...
On August 15, 1769, nineteen year old Maria Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to her fourth child. The first two had died before the age of one year, but the third,.
The House of Orleans is a cadet branch of House Bourbon, itself a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty that ruled France for nearly a thousand years. The "founder" of.