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Iazygians

History; World history

Sarmatian tribe that threatened the Danube region and the northern borders of the Roman empire from the 1st century AD. Diocletian successfully campaigned against them at the end ...

Ibadan empire

History; World history

An expansionist west African state located inland, north of Lagos and Benin City. Prominent after its victory over the Ilorin jihadists at Osogbo in 1841, the empire expanded into ...

Iberians

History; World history

Ancient inhabitants of southeast Spain who were of unknown origin and spoke a non-Indo-European language. By the mid-1st millennium BC they had begun to form a state, but further ...

Indian wars

History; World history

Wars between the European settlers and the indigenous peoples of North America (162890), during which the Indian population fell by 75 percent to 250,000. There were many hundreds ...

Norodom Sihanouk

History; World history

Norodom Sihanouk (31 October 1922 – 15 October 2012) was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until 2004. He was the effective ruler of Cambodia from 1953 ...

Abyssinian Crisis

History; World history

1935/36 Italy invaded and conquered Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Ethopian War. The League of Nations was unable to halt Italy’s aggression. In 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie I was ...

Acadia

History; World history

A North American colony of France, called Nova Scotia by the British. First settled in 1604 by Pierre de Monts and Samuel Champlain on an island in Passamaquaddy Bay, it changed ...