History

Hello and welcome to the History page of David's Travel Guides. I have always been interested in geography and history being my favourite subjects at school.

For history on the cities, towns and villages covered under this project please refer to their individual pages. As this site covers Europe I will stick to writing about the history of the European continent on this page.

 

Name & website Address Description
British History Online British History Online British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles.
EuroDocs EuroDocs Online Sources for European History
     

 

 

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History

Calling all History Lovers

Are you a history lover? Would you like to write about England, Poland or Romania? I need articles to make this project better.

Definition of History

The bodies of knowledge about the past produced by historians, together with everything that is involved in the production, communication of, and teaching about that knowledge.

European Wars in the 21st Century

2001 - Georgia, Kodori Crisis
2001 - Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
2004 to 2013 - Unrest in Kosovo
2004 - Georgia, Adjara Crisis
2004 - Georgia, South Ossetia Clashes
2006 - Georgia, Kodori Crisis
2007 to 2015 - Civil War in Ingushetia
2008 - Russian Georgian War
2009 to 2017 - Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2014 to present - Russian Ukrainian War
2014 to present - Annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation
2022 to present - Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Longest Runing Conflict in Europe

Chechnya, also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia in southeastern Russia on the Caspian Sea, Chechnya was conquered by the Russians in the 1850's as the Russian empire pushed south toward the Middle East. Chechnya’s main ethnic group is the Chechens, with minorities of Russians and Ingush. The Chechens and the Ingush are both Muslim and fiercely independent, and the region has been a constant irritant to its Russian rulers. The constant skirmishes of Chechens and Russians along the Terek River form the background to Leo Tolstoy’s novel, "The Cossacks". It is believed that the conflict actually goes back to 1785.

The conflict officially finished in 2009 after the Kremlin-backed warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov was firmly ensconced in power as head of the Chechen Republic. It still rumbles on in Europe, which has become a haven for many Chechens who fled the wars and the brutal oppression of Ramzan Kadyrov and the Russian security forces.

 

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