Armenia is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, dating back to the ancient times, when the region was part of the kingdom of Urartu. Armenia...
According to Britannica, Antigua and Barbuda are islands that form an independent state in the eastern Caribbean Sea. They were inhabited by Amerindian societies before the...
Anguilla is an island in the Caribbean Sea that was first inhabited by Arawakan-speaking Indians who came from South America around 2000 BCE. They named it Malliouhana, meaning arrow-shape sea serpent. The...
Andorra is a small country in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain. It was founded as a buffer state by Charlemagne in the 9th century to...
In 1900, after a short resistance by some native chiefs led by Chief Tui Manu’a Elisala on Ta’u island, American Samoa was formally annexed by the...
History of Algeria Ancient times Algeria was inhabited by various indigenous peoples, such as the Berbers, who spoke their own languages and had their own cultures....
The Albanians emerged as a distinct people in the 11th century and formed their own principalities and kingdoms in the 12th to 14th centuries. The first...
The history of Albania Albania is located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Strait of Otranto, the southern entrance to the Adriatic...
Afghanistan was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, who unified the Pashtun tribes. The country was settled at least 50,000 years ago, and early cities such as Mundigak and...
Baron Cohen was first educated at the independent Catholic St Columba’s College in St Albans, before moving on to attend the independent Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School...