The Piast dynasty was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I. The Piasts’ royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great.
Completed by Yusuf I (1333-1353) and Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (1353-1391), the Alhambra is a reflection of the culture of the last centuries of the Moorish rule of Al Andalus.
Recorded settlement has conventionally been dated back to 874, although archaeological evidence indicates Gaelic monks from Ireland had settled Iceland before that date.
With his crowning, Charlemagne’s kingdom is officially recognized by the Papacy as the largest in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire.
The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed in southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries C.E. It was founded circa 681 when Bulgar tribes led by Asparukh moved to the north-eastern Balkans.
Táin Bó Cúailnge, commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin), is an epic from early Irish literature which is often called “The Irish Iliad.” The Táin has had an enormous influence on Irish literature and culture. It is often considered Ireland’s national epic.
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The Rhodian Sea Law persisted across the Mediterranean region in influence, if not in actual practice, through the 12th century.
The first known settlers in the Faroe Islands were Irish monks, who in the 6th century C.E. told of the “Islands of the Sheep and the Paradise of Birds.”
The Early East Slavs gradually settled Western Russia in two waves: one moving from Kiev towards present-day Suzdal and Murom and another from Polotsk towards Novgorod and Rostov.
Kyiv, one of the oldest cities of Eastern Europe, played a pivotal role in the development of the medieval East Slavic civilization as well as in the modern Ukrainian nation.
