Anglo-Saxon art refers to the type of early medieval English art developed by the Anglo-Saxons, a cultural group and confederation of three Germanic peoples (namely Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) who sailed to and settled Britain from continental Europe (more specifically from present-day northern Germany and Jutland, Denmark) beginning in the 5th century. Anglo-Saxon art encompassed…
The Norwegian colonial empire is a syntagm which refers to the colonial empire which Norway had back during the Early Middle Ages (more specifically during the renowned Viking Age, a sub-epoch or sub-era of the Early Middle Ages) and still kept during the High Middle Ages (and, to a considerable extent, up until 1814) across…
The Anglo-Saxons were an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural mixture of three Germanic peoples (i.e. the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, according to medieval chronicler Saint Bede the Venerable) which migrated from what is now Denmark (more specifically the Jutland peninsula) and northern Germany (more specifically the states of Schleswig-Holstein, most notably the Angeln peninsula,…
This article represents an overview on the settlement of the Zipser Saxons (or Zipser Germans), an ethnic German minority native to the historical region of Spi얡 (known in German as Zips) which is situated in the north-east of Slovakia. This article briefly describes several topics of interest regarding the settlement (or ‘ansiedlung’ as the term…
The fortress (or fort) of Soroca is an imposing renovated medieval stronghold situated in the small town of Soroca in the north of the Republic of Moldova and in the historical region of Bessarabia (known in Romanian as Basarabia). This castle was built in 1499 by renowned Moldavian prince (or, as the title is known…
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