Please like us on Facebook too!
Search davidseurope
Countries that the Region has historic or territorial links.
Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxemburg Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Uncategorized United Kingdom WalesRegional Themes
- Adriatic Sea
- Alps
- Alsace
- ANATOLIA
- Ancien Régime
- Apulia
- Aquitaine
- Atlantic Ocean
- Auvergne
- baden
- Baden-Württemberg
- Balkan
- Barcelona
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Bern
- Black Sea
- Bohemia
- Brandenburg
- Burgundy
- Byzantine
- Byzantine Empire
- Cantabrian Mountains
- Champagne
- Cisalpine Republic
- Count of Barcelona
- county
- Czechoslovakia
- Danube
- Duchy of Brunswick
- Duke of Burgundy
- Elbe
- Garonne
- Gascony
- German Confederation
- Gwynedd
- Habsburg
- Hanover
- Harz
- Holy Roman Empire
- House of Habsburg
- Imperial Free City
- Kingdom of Burgundy
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Kingdom of León
- Lake Constance
- Loire
- Lombard
- Lord Lieutenant
- Lower Normandy
- Magdeburg
- Margrave
- Massif Central
- Milan
- Napoleon
- Normandy
- Ottoman Empire
- Peloponnese
- Powys
- Provence
- Prussia
- Pyrenees
- Rhine
- Roman
- Roman province
- Rome
- Saxony
- Sicily
- Southern Italy
- Soviet Union
- Swabia
- Transylvania
- Upper Bavaria
- Venice
- Vichy France
Most Visted
- None
Daily Archives: April 16, 2013
Anglesey
ANGLESEY MON. (1) Island off the northwestern coast of Wales; (2) a county, which included Holy Island, close to the western coast of Anglesey, until 1974; and (3) a unitary authority (as the ISLE OF ANGLESEY) from 1996. Anglesey was conquered … Continue reading
Posted in United Kingdom, Wales
Tagged Aberffraw, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Holy Island, Isle Anglesey, Statute of Rhuddlan, Ynys Môn
Leave a comment
Ångermanland
ÅNGERMANLAND Former province in northern Sweden, through which the lower course of the River Angerman flows. Its chief town was Härnösand, on the Gulf of Bothnia. It is now the northern and larger part of the county of Västernorrland.
Andorra
ANDORRA Also ANDORRE (Fr). In full, Valls d’Andorra (Catalan). Tiny Catalan-speaking independent state on the southern slopes of the east central Pyrenees. Andorra was a district in the old Spanish March of the Frankish Kingdom. It later belonged to the County … Continue reading
Posted in Andorra, France, Spain
Tagged Andorra, Bishop of Urgel, Catalan language, Count of Foix, President of France, Pyrenees, Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell
2 Comments
Andechs
ANDECHS Imperial County in southeastern Germany until 1248, which, until 1132, had been called Diessen. Diessen is a town at the southwestern corner of Ammersee, a lake southwest of Munich, while Andechs was a castle overlooking the lake from the … Continue reading
Posted in Germany
Tagged Bavaria, Count of Andechs, Diessen, Duke, Duke of Bavaria, Luitpoldings, Munich
1 Comment
Andalucía
ANDALUCÍA ANDALUSIA (Eng). Former province and present autonomous Community in southern Spain, very similar in extent to the Roman province of Baetica. One explanation for its name derives it from the Vandals because forms like Vandalusia exist. Certainly the Vandals … Continue reading
Posted in Spain
Tagged Al-Andalus, Almohad, ANDALUCÍA, Andalusia, Castile, Castile-León, Granada
2 Comments
davidseurope 