Portuguese explorersconquered the North African territory of Ceuta in 1419, creating an empire that would endure until 1999 as the longest-lived of the modernEuropean colonial empires.
Yiddish Jews were one recognized minority group in the ethnic hodgepodge of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, and the only group whose status wasn’t consonant with a piece of land. Martin Peretz, WSJ, 8 May 2018 Sample garments abound on shelves and dress forms at Knit Schitck —...
Premodern colonialism mainly refers to a time before Western Civilization during the Greek and Byzantine Empires. During this period, Arabs, Vikings, Romans, and some Christians held colonies throughout the Mediterranean, Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, North America, present-day Russia and Ukr...