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Since most of /his/ is clueless and ignorant about this region in general, i'd thought a general would be good to discuss the history of the region but of each past and present history of individual states aswell.
Also for future reference, "balkan" does not limit itself strictly to it's physical- geographical boundaries. Countries such as Romania, Moldova and Slovenia are also considered balkan because of common cultural traits in regards to customs, cuisine and such.
Having said that, let the discussions begin
Can Cyprus into Balkan tho?
Those guys are Greeks and they have to belong somewhere
>>88462
No, they're not Greek and we don't want them since we've had enough problems caused by them
>>88419
conquered by romans
conquered by ottomans and mayars
conquered by soviets
on the path to get conquered by germans
that's their history in a nutshell
>>88384
What is the point of this thread?
>>88431
Things that we often look over and/or underplay when learning history but were quite significant at the time.
>>88472
In my humble opinion you should expand a little bit when offering the data.
>Asturias saw herself as the true Heir of the Visigothic Realm, but when a new kingdom spawned in Pamplona the new kings also tried to link themselves to the old, gothic, past.
Greatest country of them all. Rip in peace.
>>88284
That doesn't look like the Roman Empire
>>88362
Commonwealth was literally United States beta, with freedoms exceeding anything at that time.
>>88284
They were good but to disunified to fight the larger powers.
We need to start a /his/ approved book list, whether its important books of history or books on history, I'll start with some obvious ones:
Epic of Gilgamesh - Unknown
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Peloponnese War - Thucydides
>>87925
Most of the books of Tom Holland, they are not very indept or try radical new things but they are a blast to read.
>>87925
I'd suggest 3 categories.
>Historical records from the the period, like the Thucydides
>Texts that are easy to read but not properly academic texts so people have somewhere to start if they're interested in a period.
>Academic texts for people with more advance interest levels and/or a greater tolerance for dry writing.
>>87925
Kojiki - Ō no Yasumaro
The Early History of Rome - Livy
Were the Japanese justified during WWII or did they deserve the bomb?
Whatever the answer: at least we got Godzilla out of it.
who cares about the method as long as you achieve the results right
>>87747
That's two different questions you've just asked. You're asking (1) if Japan's conduct throughout the war was justifiable given the circumstances and (2) did their behavior merit the bombings. None of their outstanding behavior was justifiable during the war, it was a level of brutality not seen in the region since the mongols. That being said they deserved it in as much as it was the only way (given what we know) that could be forced to surrender without out a land invasion. But the suffering it inflicted...
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1534– English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England
1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded after the end of the Revolutionary War
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan is born
1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.
1921...
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we /gsg/ now
Cool OP, I support this becoming a daily thread on /his/.
>>88287
Yeah I agree, pretty cool stuff
So what happened to these motherfuckers?
>>87329
Became these motherfuckers.
>>87453
No, armeni. You are once Hurrians, NOT Hittites.
The Hittites (and other Anatolians) became Turks, of course.
Well, they were Hellenised earlier, and of course they diversified when their empire (and kingdoms) fell in Late Bronze Age collapse.
But yeah they're all Turks now.
(Ugarit is Antioch isn't it?)
>>87490
They didn't exist in any distinguishable form when you came around Mehmet
I'd like to know what actually happened to them
Find a flaw.
>>87281
neckbeard NEET
>>87281
Kissed royal ass rather than be true to himself.
>>87372
okay so I've found out very quickly that /his/ love Diogenes. Makes since as he had a lot of 4chan-esque qualities.
>mfw people say Hitler "saved" Germany
>ran off all their theoretical scientists because they practiced "Jewish" science
>tacked on retarded requirements to weapons development (all Luftwaffe aircraft must be able to divebomb)
>let Goering force the various branches of the Wehrmact to fight among themselves for funding/supplies instead of arbitrarily doling it out for no other reason but personal amusement
>continued...
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And you post a picture of the most incompetent theater general in all of WW2, why?
what was the jewish science?
>>87269
That's not a picture of Mark Clark, anon.
Fun facts throughout history.
Part II (because at least one person liked the old thread)
old thread >>35630
>Pope Formosus' body was exhumed and put to trail by the new Pope Stephen.
feel free to correct the OP. Idk for sure, I wasn't there.
Operation Paul Bunyan in 1976, when the US sent special forces and tanks into the Korean DMZ to cut down one tree.
>>87260
Reading about the preceding axe murders was pretty chilling.
>>87227
The methods used in the Middle Ages for dividing up the year were not the same as those in use today; also, they changed from country to country. The official year began, in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, on Christmas Day; in Venice, upon the 1st March; in England, upon the 25th March; in Rome, at one time upon the 25th January and at another upon the 25th March; in Russia, at the spring...
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Aussies used piss to keep they feet fine during the desert war in WW2
/his/ related wallpaper thread?
>>87308
Where's Capitalist Man when you need him most.. Oh, if only he was there to squash both Red Man and the Germans.
What was the Arabian Peninsula like prior to Islam? Anything of note occurring there?
Tribes raiding tribes
A bunch of these tribes were Joos
The rest were pagans who put idols in the Kaaba
>>86906
Muhammad was just a massive troll and claims he destroyed the false idols, but he really just wanted everyone to pray to them 5 times a day and do a hajj to worship the idols.
The Himyarites/Yemenites WERE the Spice traders of the Western (by this I mean cis-Indus) world.
They import frankincense (?) and other spices from the East, and sold it to the Levantines/Hellenes.
The Arabs are basically the Semites that didn't get out of the deserts, they populated Bronze Age Mesopotamia (Akkadians) and Levant (Canaanites, Aramaeans), then in the Iron Age... You know the story.
Do you guys play any /his/ vidya?
Would you like to see more vidya based on different era and civilization?
I got so fed up with Empire that I never bought Napoleon, it is the only entry in the series that I never played
>>86794
Most recently I've been playing
>Total War Shogun 2
>War Game European Escalation
>Mount & Blade Warband
I would love to see a continual, low-threshold warfare game as in archaic Rome.
There are threads suited to this discussion on /vg/.
It is my opinion that video games threads just lower the level of discourse for the board as a whole.
crusader general; all orders, all crusades, post equipment, talk about your favourite battles, popes, and more!
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
Are great helms the greatest of helms? Yes.
>>86574
Who was the best Order of Knights
I think it was the Knights Hospitaller
Can we get a history thread NOT dedicated to white men, but instead some women and people of color who made their mark on the history?
Ada Lovelace
Double whammy: a woman who left her mark on history by colonizing people of coloUr
>>86386
Victoria was just a figurehead. She really didn't do much herself as queen.
