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- 1181: Medieval Castles
- ... forts as defensive positions. For the next few centuries this castle building was confined to the Byzantine Empire, but later hordes of Islamic warriors who swept out of Arabia to conquer the Middle East, North Africa, and much Byzantine territory also started building such forts. Western Europe, in the depths of the Dark Ages from the 5th through the 9th century, had no such works. But late in the 9th century ...
- 1182: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... maker of refined nickel, smelted zinc, and manganese; second in primary aluminum and refined lead; and third in copper mining and milling. It was believed to rank second in gold and diamond production after South Africa. Its mineral wealth was located in many different regions. Seventy percent of iron reserves were east of the Urals in the European USSR, chiefly in the Donets Basin of the Ukrainian republic and the Kursk ...
- 1183: The Invasion of Spain
- ... Cordova. These emirs did homage to Charles and proposed to him an invasion of Northern Spain; one of the, Ibn-el-Arabi, promised to bring to the invaders' assistance a force of Berber auxiliaries from Africa; the other two promised to exert their powerful influence at Barcelona and elsewhere north of the Ebro. Accordingly, in the spring of 778, Charles, with a host of crusaders, speaking many tongues, and which numbered ...
- 1184: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... two thousand years because the Jews had that land before two thousand years ago. The Jews were separated from that land, some tribes went north to Europe and Asia and some went west to North Africa. When the UN gave them that land, Zionist started moving to Palestine "Zionism is the movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora and settle them in Palestine" (Cohen). Important dates "In 1947 the ...
- 1185: D-Day
- ... or a weakening in Germany’s strongholds. Operation “Roundup” was to be set for 1943 and was less sperratic than “Sledgehammer.” After adopting the Roundup plan, the British persuaded the Americans to land in North Africa in Operation “Torch.” This subsequently postponed Operation “Sledgehammer.” The invasion was again delayed by operations in Sicily and the Italian mainland. After many meetings, Roosevelt and Stalin combined against Churchill and set May 1944 as ...
- 1186: World War II in Europe
- ... of the invading German army, only one-third of its 330,000 men still alive, surrendered. Soviet troops then started to advance toward Germany, which ended in Berlin two years later. Allied victory in North Africa cleared the way for an attack on what Churchill called "the soft underbelly" of Europe. In August 1943, British and American forces took Sicily, and in September they invaded the Italian mainland. After his defeat ...
- 1187: The Root Of Western Civilization
- ... of four major religions; Jewish, Hebrew, Greek, Christianity. They each contributed abilities to the Western Civilization known today. The area of these religions extended along the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, and the northern tip of Africa and were based around the years 200 to 600AD. The routes of Western Civilization were functional. The first root of Western Civilization, Christianity was a religious group that had beneficial useful techniques. Christianity first came ...
- 1188: The Korean War and The Damage
- ... Military Forces into action against the invaders. American Forces, those of South Korea, and, ultimately, combat contingent from Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey, with medical units from Denmark, India, and Sweden, were placed under a unified UN command headed by the U.S. commander in chief in the Far East, General Douglas MacArthur. The participating ...
- 1189: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... suspect it wasn't as many as NATO said. Remember which century we live and which region Kosovo lies in. Definitely we are living in the 20th century and Kosovo is not located in central Africa. By the way Milosevic was elected as a president by all Yugoslavians. Yugoslavia is no longer a communist country. It is a western style democratic society. Is it possible for a government in Europe to ...
- 1190: The Byzantine Empire
- ... landholders, therefore being the largest profiteers of Byzantine. (Encarta) After the Roman empire fell in 476 AD, Byzantine conquered all. It took over the space of southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and the northeast corner of Africa. The present day countries in these areas include the Balkan Peninsula, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. This large empire known as Byzantine didn't get called Byzantine until scholars named it. The people of that ...
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