According to Korean tradition, Dangun was the mythical founder of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom that ruled over a territory stretching between the modern-day Liaoning Province in Northeast China and the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula in ancient times. The myth of Dangun first appeared in the 13th-century Samguk Yusa, a historical record that…
Denmark is a European country located north of Germany, while Canada occupies the northern portion of North America, bordering the United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. However, this two countries, that are seemigly so far from each other, share a short land border in the Arctic region…
For millennia the only known celestial objects were those visible to the naked eye. In the Solar System these are limited to the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and some comets and asteroids occasionally passing near our planet. Astronomy was revolutionized in the early seventeenth century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was…
More than 1700 years have passed since the year 301, there have been countless invasions, revolutions, and wars, countries have come and gone, empires have risen and fallen, but one thing has remained constant on the ever-changing world map throughout all this period of time: the Republic of San Marino. San Marino is a small…
The small and beautiful island of Saint Martin, located in the Caribbean, has the peculiarity of being split almost in half between two European countries: France and the Netherlands. The northern side is occupied by the French Collectivity of Saint Martin, while the Dutch side to the south is known as Sint Maarten. The French…
A legendary figure in European history, Attila was one of the most feared enemies of the Romans and, during his prime, he ranked among the most powerful sovereigns in the world. Attila was the King of the Huns when they were at the peak of their strength, ruling over a territory that extended from the…
Between the fifteenth and eighteenth century, European explorers and colonizers sailed the oceans, expanding from their continent to the entire world during the so-called Age of Discovery. However, decades before the Spanish ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Americas, the Chinese Empire, ruled by the Ming dynasty, saw its own age of exploration…
If you look at different maps of Central Asia, you can notice that a large lake placed between the Caspian Sea and the Himalayan Plateau keeps changing shape. Sometimes it is very large and it has an almost round outline, while some other times it has nearly vanished, with only two smaller bodies of water…
A failed exam, the self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ, a fourteen-year-long war that led to the deaths of tens of millions. While most people in the West might have never heard about it, the Taiping Rebellion was one of the bloodiest wars ever, and a pivotal event in the history of China. Between 1850 and…
When you think about Western colonialism, the large British, French, or Spanish empires are probably the first ones that come to your mind, but during the the so-called Age of Discovery many European states established or tried to establish colonies around the world. One of the smaller and less known of these states was the…