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On 2nd December 1941, just before the start of the Pacific War, Australian military planners noted Portuguese Timor as 'the entrance door to Australia'. Although Portugal was neutral in World War II,...

Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Negara Brunei Darussalam, on the island of Borneo, dates from medieval times, with archaeologists having found evidence of human habitation at nearby Kota Batu...

The island of Elba, off the west coast of Italy, has a documented history going back to ancient times with the Jason and the Argonauts and poet Ovid being one of its most famous early visitors. The...

Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey, was one of the great cities of the ancient world, and the location of the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A largely Greek city, it...

The Republic of San Marino traces its origins back to Saint Marinus who established a settlement in AD 301. It has managed to maintain its independence since then in spite of a Papal attempt to...

This is an historical dictionary of the city of Sochi in Russia, and the first major historical work on this city in English. It covers topics relating to the city's history, famous people connected...

This is an annotated bibliography of fiction set in Medieval Britain and published from the fifteenth century to the present day. It covers more than 3,000 books set in Arthurian Britain, during the...

This book provides a detailed guide to genealogical sources in Corfu, Paxos, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zante and Cerigo for the time that they were occupied by the British from 1815 to 1864 as the...

This bibliography contains details of 3135 books, magazine and newspaper articles, and manuscript sources on the Burma Campaign. It is supplemented by a chronology of the main events of the Burma...

The Russian Revolution saw the clash between two men of Kalmyk ancestry: Lenin who seized power, and Kornilov who tried to prevent him from doing so. In the Russian Civil War that followed, Kalmyks...