Let the Games Begin! (Russian Style)
Posted by: Mike Klein
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, occurred on both the location and the sesquicentennial of the Circassian genocide in 1864.
Posted in: European History
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Posted by: Mike Klein
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, occurred on both the location and the sesquicentennial of the Circassian genocide in 1864.
Posted in: European History
Posted by: Mike Klein
The Croatian seaport of Rijeka commands a stunning view of Kvarner Bay (Golfo del Carnaro), nestled in an arm of the northern Adriatic between the Istrian Peninsula and the Croatian littoral. Over the centuries its outstanding deep water port has attracted Celts, Greeks, Romans, Franks, Goths, Venetians, Byzantines, Hapsburgs, and Italians, most of whom have contested …
Posted in: European History
Posted by: Mike Klein
There aren’t many official maps of the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine. In fact, we would not expect to find any at all, for the country arrived into this world on the morning of March 15, 1939, and passed into history that very evening, a fatality of the common maladies afflicting vulnerable, neo-natal states, i.e. poor timing, …
Posted in: 20th century cartography, European History