In 1351, a Lao princeling who had fled as a refugee to the Court of Angkor raised an army of 10000 Khmer to defeat rebellious Lao tribes on Angkor's northern reaches. Fa Ngum, as he was called, traced his ancestry to Khun Lo, a legendary...
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In 1832 the long struggle for Greek independence ended as the Great Powers recognized the separation of Greece from the Ottoman Empire. The London Conference of 1832 made Greece a.
The Hohenzollern are first mentioned in the eleventh century. Holding lands in southern Germany and the Black Forest, the family slowly expanded its territory until it acquired Brandenburg in 1415..
In the late 17th century, the Ottoman Empire granted limited autonomy to Serbia, a province that had been under Turkish control since the victory at the Field of Blackbirds in 1389. Turkish weakness emboldened groups of Serbian rebels and bandits supported by the Hapsburg Empire....
As was the case in many parts of the world, initial Hawaiian contact with the West led to the centralization of governing institutions. The ability of certain kings and chiefs.
The House of Savoy is one of the oldest noble families in Europe. In 1003, Humbert the White Handed was made Count of Savoy, a mountainous region along the modern.