Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…the seventh century. The armies of Muhammad and his successors pass through the southern Mediterranean. By the eighth century Spain has fallen and Europe is born in the most unlikely…

…Europe in the eleventh or twelfth centuries and do we have a case of borrowing (from the far orient, as with playing cards) or independent invention? If you want to…

…and the Carpathians. This is a travelogue then and recalls in some ways Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, that Mormon-clean description of a trip across Europe just before…

…entirely new world to us now such as America was to wondering Europe in the sixteenth century. According to Addison, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, “There was not…

…before vanishing entirely. Their placenames would have too for the most part disappeared, being replaced by Germanic equivalents and most of Western Europe would have become a greater Germany. But…

…“interact” with the Greek, Celtic and Germanic religions, and others outside of Europe. These “in-between” creatures associated with the Greek religion would most likely be paranormal in nature. However, any…

…of the numbers above relations between insular and continental Europe, for example, should be fraught with difficulties in understanding: glacial Brits facing off against hot-blooded Euros. Suicides should be higher…

…together far from the busnó… It was as much a gypsy as a gajao legend then. Beach is completely out of his depth with sixteenth-century central Europe, particularly where Hungarian…

…both wars. Another factor was the large number of casualties in Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, in WW2. Japan changed from an honorable nation in WW1 to its opposite in WW2…

…from home. Very often there were no ‘normal’ soldiers in these tilts. Thinking of European history modern warfare saw an important new innovation. Slavery was out of question, ransoming and…

…cartoon map of Europe through five hundred years. Every time the borders change – the map flicks from year to year – countless numbers move and die, cultures rise like…

…Paris and London have really been in the race to be the greatest European city; though Moscow, with its Soviet hangover, should be included for contemporary Europe. London has traditionally,…