Ancient Spain From about 900 BC a seafaring people called the Phoenicians who came from what is now Lebanon traded with what is now Spain. They founded a chain of trading settlements along the coast on islands and peninsulas. The …
Trade unions Italy became a nation-state belatedly on 17 March 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king Victor Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian unification …
1. Prehistoric Cyprus The island of Cyprus emerged from the sea some 1,85 million years ago after the African tectonic plate moved under the Eurasian. The first settlers inhabited the island around the 9th or 10th millennium BC from the …
The history of Belgium extends before the founding of the modern state of that name in 1830, and is intertwined with those of its neighbors: the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg. For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such …
Romania’s history from feminism to values and traditions After the 1989 Revolution, which ended the Communist era in Romania, the Romanians were ready and hoping for a new start. The new Constitution of Romania was adopted in November 1991. Romania …
