The settlement, historical legacy and achievements of the Transylvanian Saxons, a predominantly German ethnic group which has been living in Transylvania since the Middle Ages onwards, are well known and documented. But, perhaps, not that much is known or considered ‘mainstream’ in historical regards with respect to their historical legacy, contributions, and achievements in the…
Baia (previously known in Romanian as T쎢rgul Moldovei, i.e. the market of Moldavia, and in Latin as Civitas Moldaviensis), nowadays a commune in Suceava County, Western Moldavia, northeastern Romania, was the first capital of the Principality of Moldavia, one of the Romanian principalities during the Middle Ages. It was founded by Transylvanian Saxons, a predominantly…
The history, settlement process, achievements, and legacy of the Transylvanian Saxons (or Siebenb쎼rger Sachsen as they are known in German), a predominantly ethnic German group which has been living in Transylvania since the mid 12th century onwards, are well known, but, perhaps their medieval history in the two neighbouring Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia…
Atlantis is a legendary lost continent, bygone ancient civilisation, and lost, submerged concentric-ringed city said to have existed way back in the past, situated, according to legend, somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean, at the crossroads between Europe, Africa, and North America. The first well known literary sources detailing the myth of Atlantis are the…
According to relatively recent historical and archaeological/DNA research, it seems that the Norse might have reached the shores of the Madeira and Azores archipelagos (which are both part of Portugal) well before the firmly established Portuguese colonisers! According to several mouse bones found in Madeira which were dated to either the 10th or 11th centuries…
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