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

From circa AD 520, and the beginnings of the East Engle domination of the eastern coast of Britain, this band of Angles gradually moved into the East Midlands, alongside other groups who eventually ...

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 ...

This map shows a host of the many petty Norwegian and Swedish kingdoms in eighth and ninth century Scandinavia, most of them Norwegian, arranged along the coastline, although penetration into the ...

Towards the end of the thirteenth century BC, the international system started to break down. Characterised by international contacts between the empires of the Near East and their interaction with ...

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).

Patiala is a city located in the south-eastern region of the modern Indian state of Punjab. The name Patiala is derived from the Punjabi word 'pati', meaning 'land'. The princely state of Patiala was ...

During the second millennium BC, a series of small kingdoms emerged in the Near East's populated but relatively backwards lands between the established cities of southern Mesopotamia and the southern ...