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Ahmad ibn Farrukh, also written Ahmad-i Farrokh, was a 12th-century Persian physician from Herat. He was one of the teachers of Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani...

This article briefly introduces a list of better known Kurdish historical sites (Kurdish: Asewari mêjûyi Kurdan). Apart from Kurdish historical sites within...

Marcus Atilius Regulus was a Roman consul in 294 BC. During his year, according to Livy's main source, he served against the Samnites and Apulians without...

In ancient times, Romans exploited the gold mines in what is now Transylvania extensively, building access roads and forts to protect them, like Abrud...

Magda Blondiau Arnold (born Magda Barta-Blondau; December 22, 1903 – October 5, 2002) was a Canadian psychologist who was the first contemporary theorist...

The history of the Jews in the Balearic Islands goes back more than a thousand years. Jews have lived in the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, belonging...

The three abductions of maidens from the Vreta convent was a series of events that took place in Sweden in the 13th century. They became legendary and...

Ibbur (Hebrew: עיבור, "pregnancy" or "impregnation" or "incubation"), is one of the transmigration forms of the soul and has similarities with Gilgul neshamot...

Nicholas McLeod (fl. 1868–1889), in some accounts called Norman McLeod, was a native of the Isle of Skye, Scotland known for his theory that the Japanese...

Angela Bianchini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒela bjaŋˈkiːni]; 21 April 1921 – 27 October 2018) was an Italian fiction writer and literary critic of Jewish...

Otto Pollak (30 April 1908 – 18 April 1998) was a writer and a professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His most controversial and famous...

The history of the Jews in Békés, a county in Hungary, has lasted more than two centuries. Jewish settlement in Békés began in the 18th century and the...

The South African Postal Union Convention was signed during 1897, and came into effect on 1 January 1898. The intention of the Convention was to allow...

Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski (c. 1479–1527) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). Jan was castellan of Biecz and Sącz, starost of Pilzno. He had one child, Dorota...

Dayyan-Assur was commander-in-chief, or Tartan (turtānu), of the Assyrian army during the reign of Shalmaneser III (859 - 824 BC). According to the Black...

In Irish mythology, Queen Achtland married one of the Tuatha Dé Danann who were the people of the goddess Danu. Achtland herself was a mortal woman, and...