On 2 June 2016, Germany’s Bundestag passed a resolution qualifying the Ottoman era Armenian killings as genocide. A few days before, the Yerevan population welcomed a monument to Garegin Nzhdeh, a Nazi collaborator. Armenian militant Garegin Nzhdeh was born in the Azerbaijani town ...
2019 YEAR – “YEAR OF NASIMI: 650 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT AZERBAIJANI POET IMADEDDIN NASIMI, FROM WHICH EGYPT AUTHORITY REMOVED THE SKIN, AND HEAD AND FOOT TALKED SULTAN OF THE COUNTRY. Monuments of the country are a mirror of the ...
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The conflicts that remained unresolved with the 1918 armistice or the 1919 treaty meant that World War I did not end until some time later. At least ostensibly, World War I ended first with the cessation of armed hostilities between the ...
Amoral geopolitics, more than any clash of civilizations, dictated Venetian-Ottoman relations. Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 604 pp., $34.95. THOUGH HISTORIANS know about the vast difference between ...
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Alan Taylor demolishes the fiction of happy warriors united in a righteous cause against ruthless overlords. Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016), 704 pp., $37.50. ALAN TAYLOR’S American Revolutions demolishes the fiction—deeply ensconced in the ...
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Making some really massive waves in history. by Kyle Mizokami There have been countless navies in the last three thousand years of human history. Built by ...