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).
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 ...
One of those tribes was known as the Drangians, from which the region gained its name. They have also been referred to as the Sarangians, Drangae, and Zarangae, and are claimed as being subjects of ...
While the Anglo-Saxon kings of England had the Witenagemot (or Witan) council to advise them on major decisions, the old system was swept away by the Norman conquerors of 1066. William I brought the ...
Arzawa was a poorly-recorded state with uncertain borders in the ancient Near East. When its existence was first discovered by modern scholars its location was placed (in 1926) somewhere around the ...
The Roman administration of Britannia officially came to an end in AD 410, although in practise the Romano-British had governed themselves for some time and had expelled that administration in 409 ...