The Balkans: Europe's Forgotten Frontier - Pt 1: The BBC's Europe editor, Katya Adler, travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Albania. Thirty years on from the Yugoslav wars of independence, she discovers a beautiful region undergoing rapid change.
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Austria's Balkan frontier – the disputed borderland between Europe and the Ottoman Turks – was defended in the 18th century by a unique organization of hardy communities who were granted farmland in return for armed service. These Grenzers, masters of guerrilla warfare, were later incorporated ...
wars and the Thirty Years’ War. Both the military campaigns and the significant permanent military presence at the frontiers made the region a hotspot for epidemics. This paper looks at the Kingdom of Hungary to understand the interrelation of three factors, plague, wars, and weather. In ...
When did the Frontier Wars end? When was the American frontier around? When did the American frontier close? When did the Frontier Wars end in Texas? When did the New Kingdom start? When did European exploration start? When did the Great Trek occur?
In the beginning the frontier was Atlantic coast. The frontier was Europe in some sort of real sense. While moving towards the west the frontier became more American. Form the frontier being advanced it meant a steady movement away from any influence from Europe, a constant growth of independen...
The United States Army fought a series of Indian wars in Minnesota, Dakota, and the Indian Territory. By 1880 the settled area had been pushed into northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, along Dakota rivers, and in the Black Hills region, and was ascending the rivers of Kansas and ...
During the French Revolutionary Wars, the Ottoman regencies of North Africa profited greatly from Europe's preoccupation with these wars and increasingly turned to razzias, raids on coastal villages along the southern Mediterranean shores. From the late 1700s until 1816, Tunis alone increased its sh...
and historical, foreign and indigenous 鈥 who have lived and fought in the Baltic and made the atmosphere of what was often thought to be western Europe's furthest redoubt. Too often it has seemed to be the destiny of this region to be the front line of other people's wars. By...
What role did Quanah Parker have in the Frontier Wars? What was the main effect of Executive Order 9066? What role did Manifest Destiny have in westward expansion? What was the significance of the Sons of Liberty? What was the significance of the Siege of Charleston?