This is a blog about world history in general, world war ii, i, vietnam war, middle ages, boer war, weapons, and biographies of famous people, etc.
Charlemagne was king of the Franks (768-814) and Holy Roman Emperor (800-814). He was the greatest of medieval kings who expanded the Frankish kingdom into a Frankish Empire that comprised much of Western and Central Europe. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. He is numbered as Charles I in the [...]
Also known as the Battle of Poitier of 732, the Battle of Tours was a battle fought during the Middle Ages, between the Frankish of Army, commanded by Charles Martel, and the Muslim army of the Cordoban emirate which attempted to invade the whole of Europe and make of it another Islamic Caliphate. The Battle of [...]
Merovingian Dynasty Clovis I, King of the Franks In 481 Clovis I succeeded his father Childeric I as king of the Salians Franks, one of the Frankish tribes that were occupying the northeastern corner of France, west of the Rhine. Clovis I (466 – 511) was the first King of the Franks to unite all [...]
Spain had not only been an important Roman province known as Hispania, but also the birth place of two Roman emperors, Trajan and Adrian. When the Empire collapsed in the 5th century, Hispania was invaded by four Germanic tribes who entered through the Pyrenees in succesive waves; the Suevians who settled in the northwest of [...]
The fall of the Roman Empire in the hands of the Germanic tribes ushered in a new historical period, the Middle Ages. A dark period in which the new invaders set up new kingdoms and laid the foundations upon which the European Nations arose and the Catholic Church erected itself as the only spiritual beacon [...]
