Here’s a list of 10 most interesting facts about the ancient Greeks, their society, and culture: 10. The Athenian democracy is the eldest form of democracy in the world. At each political gathering held in ancient Athens there were at least 6,000 citizens present. So it is that they would usually meet on the slopes…
Here’s a list of 10 most interesting historical facts about the Romans, their society and culture: 10. The Romans ate an earlier form of pizza. Although the pizza we know today differs very much from the earlier form the Romans used to eat, there is a passage in the ‘War Commentaries of Caesar’ which depicts…
Here’s a list of ten interesting historical facts on the Norsemen and the Viking Age: 10. By far the most well known misconception about the Norsemen is that they are many times mistaken for the name of their occupation, namely for the term ‘Viking’. Although the term ‘Viking’ denotes in Old Norse the occupation of…
The Battle of Clontarf represented a turning point in Irish history as it was the day when the Norsemen were defeated by the Irish High King Brian Boru, as such putting an end to the Norse domination of Ireland. The battle took place on 23 April 1014 at Clontarf, near present-day Dublin, on the east…
The common date given for the commencement of the Viking Age슠is 793, when the Catholic abbey of Lindisfarne that was situated on an island less than one mile off the north-eastern coast of England (pertaining at the time to the early medieval Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria) was plundered by a group of Norsemen슠stemming from Hordaland,…
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