The 1930s and 1940s were a quieter period for land acquisition, but in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, as Edmonton spread out, ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the ...

The history of the British Isles from the end of the most recent ice age to the formation of the united Anglo-Saxon kingdom forms several stages and covers a good deal of conflict. It starts with the ...

Out of the Samhan confederacies of late antiquity Korea, the 'Three Kingdoms' of Baekje, Gaya, and Silla emerged, although not entirely directly in most cases. Despite the fact that they replaced the ...

Ancient Syria was much larger than its modern counterpart, being bordered by the Taurus Mountains in the north, the Upper Euphrates to the north-east, and the Syrian Desert to the south-east. The name ...

The ancient province of Arachosia in South Asia lay largely within central areas of modern Afghanistan, and perhaps edging into western Pakistan. Prior to its late sixth century BC domination by the ...

This map of Britain concentrates on British territories and kingdoms which were established during the fourth and fifth centuries, as the Saxons and Angles began their settlement of the east coast. It ...

The Levant in the period between about 10,000-3000 BC was the centre of the Neolithic Farmer revolution in the Near East. The process of domesticating wild crops took at least three millennia on its ...

Liaka Kusuluka seems to have been the first of the western satraps (founding what is sometimes referred to as the Kshaharata dynasty). This suggests that the region around Chuksa had only recently ...