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The town was the location of two battles during the Thirty Years' War, which took place between 1618 and 1648. Today it is one of very few towns in Germany that still have completely intact city walls —joining the ranks of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Dinkelsbühl and Berching , all of them in Bavaria.
Built in murus dacicus style, the six Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains (Romanian: Cetăți dacice din Munții Orăștiei), in Romania, were created in the 1st centuries BC and AD as protection against Roman conquest, and played an important role during the Roman–Dacian wars.
The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
Throughout Islamic history, al-Rahba was considered, in the words of the 14th-century traveler Ibn Batuta, "the end of Iraq and the beginning of al-Sham [Syria]". [1] The fortress is located about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) southwest of the Euphrates River, 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) southwest of the modern Syrian city of Mayadin, [1] [2] [3] and 42 kilometers (26 mi) southeast of Dayr az-Zawr, capital ...
View of Timgad ruins The Library at Timgad was a gift to the Roman people by Julius Quintianus Flavius Rogatianus at a cost of 400,000 sesterces . [ 12 ] As no additional information about this benefactor has been unearthed, the precise date of the library's construction remains uncertain.
The name Rujm el-Hiri, "stone heap of the wildcat", [2] was originally taken from Syrian maps. [6] The term rujm in Arabic (pl. rujum; Hebrew: rogem) can also refer to a tumulus, a heap of stones underneath which human burial space was located. [1] The name is sometimes romanized as Rujm Hiri or Rujum al-Hiri.
In 1924 Gann revisited the ruins, and then led adventurer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges to the site. In his typically sensationalistic fashion, Mitchell-Hedges published an article in the Illustrated London News claiming to have "discovered" the site. Gann made a new map of the site.
Ruins of Aizanoi Map of ancient Aizanoi and the modern village of Çavdarhisar, c. 1835. Colonnaded street in Aizanoi. Settlement in the area is known from the Bronze Age.The city may have derived its name from Azan, one of three sons of Arcas and the nymph Erato, legendary ancestors of the Phrygians.