Cappadocia: History
Cappadocia’s human history stretches back to the Hittites, who controlled central Anatolia around 1800 BC and left behind rock-carved reliefs and fortress ruins scattered across the region. After…
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Seville: History
Seville has been important for a very long time. The Romans knew it as Hispalis. When the Moors conquered in 711, it became Ishbiliya, eventually capital of the…
Bali: History
Bali’s Hindu culture exists because of a historical accident worth knowing. As Islam spread across the Indonesian archipelago from the 13th century onward, the Majapahit Empire — the…
Cusco: History
Cusco — Qusqu in Quechua — was founded, according to Inca oral tradition, by the legendary first Inca ruler Manco Cápac, and grew from a regional settlement into…
Goa: History
Goa’s history took a sharp turn in 1510 when the Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque captured the territory from the Bijapur Sultanate and made it the capital of…
History of Kochi
Kochi history explained through the spice trade, Portuguese arrival, Dutch influence, Jewish heritage, British rule and the modern port city.
Banff: History
It started in 1883 with a stroke of luck. Railway workers building the Canadian Pacific Railway stumbled on hot springs on the slopes of Sulphur Mountain, and the…