In much of Europe, the end of the Roman Empire was less of a complete calamity ... as they had their Roman predecessors. The main east-west Roman road ran from Newgate to the forum on Gracechurch ...

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What weight should be given to the role of ideas in moments of radical change, as opposed to that of material interests and forces? From the Reformation to the Enlightenment, rise of Marxism and ...

Switzerland's government approved a parliamentary committee motion to strengthen controls at its borders. But what does the word ‘border’ really mean in the Swiss context?

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They colonized today’s United States before it had that name, by the 1750s, and apparently from both the east and the west ... time for the decline of the Roman Empire. Black and brown rats ...

until it was outblazed by the greater empire to the west: Rome. In A.D. 106, the emperor Trajan annexed the Nabataean territories, and the area became known as the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.

It ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. Heedless to wise counsel and ...

The Albanian case is very similar to the problems that the Croat 19 th century nationalists faced with the acute lack of ...