European History
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Saami aren't native to Europe, they're originally from Siberia. They arrived in Northeastern Europe during the Iron Age, long after Scandinavia had been settled by modern (Bronze A...
Few people realize how close Europe was to a second Dark Age in the 9th century. The world that emerged from that chaos created the Medieval World far more than the Age of Charlema...
🧵𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Since the end of WW2, the European continent and in particular We...
Who Will Fight for Christendom? Hunyadi & the Battle of Belgrade, 1456 When the king and nobles hid away and left it to one man.🧵 https://t.co/U6qVRUXmk6
On this day in 1683, a combined Polish-German army defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna. The city had been besieged by the Ottoman force for two months when the Christian r...
"In literary terms, Scotland has another vampiric claim to fame. Emily Gerard, an author from Airdrie.. https://t.co/6u5Cxr8raf https://t.co/TFFg0zYsnA
Belgium jewish History https://t.co/upm0tNvexd "jews followed the path of the Roman legions to Belgium in the years 53-57 CE. Returned in the early 16th century after the Spanish...
To celebrate my recent growth and hitting my initial goal of 100 followers, here is my thread on the 100 Years War! One of Medieval Europe's most significant and integral conflic...
A Brief History of Tennis From Medieval monks and Henry VIII to the French Revolution and Wimbledon: https://t.co/776OS2113K
These slaves were sold to Muslims by VIKINGS, who would raid Eastern European lands and merchants from the city-states of Italy 🇮🇹 (Piso, Venice). https://t.co/uVBVEdLzvx
The Republic of Pisa was a thalassocratic city state that existed from the 11-15th centuries. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and...
On this day 30 April the Dutch recaptured the important fortress of Schenkenschans in 1636. Spanish garrison of 1500 men was bombarded from all sides, suffering huge casualties....
EUROPEAN WARS 1. Dear Me. Sorry if I accuse Europeans of liking war. 2. I studied European history. 3. It is all about European wars. https://t.co/CgZ4boPN4S
Things are starting to change: "France still too often makes the mistake of aligning itself with German positions against its old Polish friend." Brilliant. There are still excell...
Medieval European theology/philosophy is such a bore, adds nothing of substance. You can pretty much skip the entire philosophy of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox church &...
In #Germany, the memory and legacy of WWII have lost their extraordinary implications. The much-lamented burden of guilt that once deeply affected both collective memory and nation...
Once upon a time, there were two epicenters of Islamic power on Earth (3, but let’s stick to 2 now), the Ottomans in the Middle East and the Mughals in India. Neither subservient...
At the battle of Kircholm in 1605 the Polish-Lithuanian hussar cavalry was able to rout the numerically much stronger Swedish infantry. Why did the pike infantry perform so badly...
Genetic Ancestry of Russians. It's interesting to note that European Russians can have upto 11-13% North East Asian (Uralic) ancestry easily. https://t.co/fc7caKgu0T
The battle of Lens in 1648 was one of the greatest victories of the famed French commander Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé. Fought in the final stages of the Thirty Years' War,...
Today 28 November is anniversary of the battle of Oliwa. Known as "the day when the sun went down at noon", this naval battle was fought in 1627 and saw the navy of the Polish–Lit...
What kind of upbringing raises people from tiny countries in Europe, given its vile world scale history, to believe they have a monopoly on morality, democratic principles, and wha...
One of the most scary days in European history of energy supplies A thread 1/n
Today 6 September is anniversary of the battle of Nördlingen in 1634! Fought during the Thirty Years' War in Bavaria, Nördlingen became perhaps the most iconic victory of the fame...