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Herero Wars. German troops in combat with the Herero in a painting by Richard Knötel. The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia ). They took place between 1904 and 1908.
Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses As the historian Lyndal Roper notes, the "Reformation proceeded by a set of debates and arguments". Luther presented his views in public at the observant Augustinians' assembly in Heidelberg on 26 April 1518. Here he explained his "theology of the Cross" about a loving God who had become frail to save fallen humanity, contrasting it with the scholastic ...
The Roman Empire is in white. The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain. It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni tribe. The uprising was motivated by the Romans' failure to honour an ...
History of the Huns. The legend map of the Hunnic empire at its zenith. The history of the Huns spans the time from before their first secure recorded appearance in Europe around 370 AD to after the disintegration of their empire around 469. The Huns likely entered Western Asia shortly before 370, from Central Asia: they first conquered the ...
The Frisii were an ancient tribe, living in the low-lying region between the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and the River Ems, sharing some cultural and linguistic elements with the neighbouring Celts. [1] [2] [3] The newly formed marshlands were largely uninhabitated until the 6th or 5th centuries BC, when inland settlers started to colonize ...
Germania Superior ("Upper Germania ") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire. It comprised an area of today's western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions, and southwestern Germany. Important cities were Besançon ( Vesontio ), Strasbourg ( Argentoratum ), Wiesbaden ( Aquae Mattiacae ), and Germania Superior's capital, Mainz ...
Saxon revolt of 1077–1088. The Saxon revolt was a civil war fought between 1077 and 1088, early in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. The revolt was led by a group of opportunistic German princes who elected as their figurehead the duke of Swabia, Rudolf of Rheinfeld, who became the anti-king. Rudolf was a two-way brother-in-law [a] of the ...
