RingfortRingforts or ring forts are small circular fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD. They are found in…View analysis →
NafplioNafplio or Nafplion (Greek: Ναύπλιο, romanized: Náfplio) is a coastal city located in the Peloponnese in Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit of Argolis and an…View analysis →
Warlord EraThe Warlord Era was the period in the history of the Republic of China between 1916 and 1928, when control of the country was divided between rival military cliques of the…View analysis →
IximcheIximcheʼ (Mayan pronunciation: ) (or Iximché using Spanish orthography) is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. Iximche was the…View analysis →
Kingdom of StrathclydeStrathclyde (Welsh: Ystrad Clud, 'Valley of the Clyde'), also known as Cumbria, was a Brittonic kingdom in northern Britain during the Middle Ages. It comprised parts of what is…View analysis →
EdiacaranThe Ediacaran ( /ˌiːdiˈækərən, ˌɛdi-/ EE-dee-AK-ər-ən, ED-ee-) is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period…View analysis →
NigersaurusNigersaurus (/niːˈʒɛərsɔːrəs, ˈnaɪdʒərsɔːrəs/) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago…View analysis →
Aurel SteinSir Marc Aurel Stein (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and…View analysis →
DucatThe ducat (/ˈdʌkət/ DUK-ət) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing…View analysis →
KnyazA knyaz, also knez, knjaz, kniaź or kniaz (Church Slavonic: кънѧѕь, romanized: kŭnędzĭ), is a historical Slavic title, used both as a royal and noble title in different times. It…View analysis →
MfecaneThe Mfecane was a historical period of heightened military conflict and migration associated with state formation and expansion in Southern Africa. It resulted from the complex…View analysis →
WittenWitten (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.View analysis →
TauernThe word Tauern (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is German and originally meant 'high mountain pass' in the Austrian Central Alps, referring to the many bridleways and passes of the…View analysis →
PachycetusPachycetus (from Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús), meaning "thick", and Latin cetus, meaning "whale") is an extinct genus of pachycetine basilosaurid from Middle Eocene of the…View analysis →
HoldernessHolderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the…View analysis →
Al-ZahrawiAbū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (c. 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was an Arab…View analysis →
MeironMeiron (Arabic: ميرون, romanized: Mayrūn; Hebrew: מירון הקדומה, romanized: Merón haKdumá) was a Palestinian village, located 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Safad. Associated with…View analysis →
KneiphofKneiphof (Russian: Кнайпхоф; Polish: Knipawa; Lithuanian: Knypava) was a quarter of central Königsberg (Kaliningrad). During the Middle Ages it was one of the three towns that…View analysis →
O'Conor dynastyThe O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Irish: Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties…View analysis →
AllobrogesThe Allobroges (Gaulish: *Allobrogis, 'foreigner, exiled'; Ancient Greek: Ἀλλοβρίγων, Ἀλλόβριγες) were a Gallic people dwelling in a large territory between the Rhône river and…View analysis →
RoderickRoderick, Rodrick or Roderic (Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, from *hrōþiz, lit. 'fame, glory' + *ríks, 'king, ruler') is a Germanic name, recorded from the 8th century onward. Its…View analysis →
Social classA social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common ones being: the working class, the middle class and the…View analysis →
GamlaGamla (Hebrew: גמלא, lit. 'The camel'), also Gamala, was an ancient Jewish town on the Golan Heights. Believed to have been founded as a Seleucid fort during the Syrian Wars, it…View analysis →
PicardyPicardy (/ˈpɪkərdi/; Picard and French: Picardie, French: ⓘ, Picard: ; West Flemish and Dutch: Picardië) is a historical and cultural territory and a former administrative region…View analysis →
CaseidaeCaseidae are an extinct family of basal synapsids that lived from the Late Carboniferous to Middle Permian between about 300 and 265 million years ago. Fossils of these animals…View analysis →
PereaPerea or Peraea (Greek: Περαία, "the country beyond") was the term used mainly during the early Roman period for part of ancient Transjordan. It lay broadly east of Judea and…View analysis →
EriduEridu (Sumerian: 𒉣𒆠, romanized: NUN.KI; Sumerian: eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu) was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain (Arabic: تل أبو شهرين), also Abu Shahrein or Tell…View analysis →
Pepi I MeryrePepi I Meryre (also Pepy I) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for over 40 years at the turn of the 24th and 23rd centuries BC…View analysis →
PeasantA peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees…View analysis →
Buyid dynastyThe Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central and southern Iran, and…View analysis →
KhafajahKhafajah or Khafaje (Arabic: خفاجة), ancient Tutub, is an archaeological site in Diyala Governorate, Iraq 7 miles (11 km) east of Baghdad. Khafajah lies on the Diyala River, a…View analysis →
Quaternary glaciationThe Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began around…View analysis →
LotharingiaLotharingia was a historical region and an early medieval polity that existed during the late Carolingian and early Ottonian era, from the middle of the 9th to the middle of the…View analysis →
Bahram ChobinBahrām Chōbīn or Bahrām Chōbēn (Persian: بهرام چوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (died 591), also known by his epithet Mihrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and…View analysis →
BugyōBugyō (奉行) was a title assigned to samurai officials in feudal Japan. Bugyō is often translated as commissioner, magistrate, or governor, and other terms would be added to the…View analysis →
Late TriassicThe Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between 237 Ma and 201.4 Ma (million years ago). It is…View analysis →
