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Battle of Nicopolis
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Battle of Nicopolis

The Battle of Nicopolis in September 1396 CE, also known as the Nicopolis Crusade, was an attempt by French, Hungarian, and other European allies to curb the threat of the Ottoman Turks as they pressed ever westwards into Europe...
Portrait of Miklós Horthy 1927
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Portrait of Miklós Horthy 1927

Painting of Admiral Miklós Horthy, oil on canvas painting by Philip de László, Gödöllő, 1927. This painting depicts Admiral Miklós Horthy, regent of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II. Hungarian...
Reich Chancellery with Nazi Swastikas and Hungarian Flags
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Reich Chancellery with Nazi Swastikas and Hungarian Flags

Reich Chancellery with Nazi Swastikas and Hungarian Flags, Bundesarchiv, Berlin, August 1938. The Reich Chancellery (Die Reichskanzlei), built in 1878, was the official office of the German chancellor...
Miklós Horthy Bust at Kenderes
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Miklós Horthy Bust at Kenderes

Miklós Horthy Bust at Kenderes, photograph by Csanády, 2009. Put up in his hometown of Kenderes in 1993, this bust of Miklós Horthy celebrated the return of his remains from Portugal and his role as leader of Hungary...
Hitler's Occupation of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler's Occupation of Czechoslovakia

Throughout 1938, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, threatened to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. The excuse presented was that Sudeten Germans were being repressed but Hitler...
Battles & Conquests Of The Ottoman Empire (1299-1683)
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Battles & Conquests Of The Ottoman Empire (1299-1683)

Spanning across three continents and holding dominance over the Black and Mediterranean Seas, the Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922) was a global military superpower between the 15th and 17th centuries...
Map of Europe on the Eve of World War I, June 1914
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Map of Europe on the Eve of World War I, June 1914 - Alliances, Empires, Borders, and Military Power

Between German unification (1871) and the outbreak of the First World War (1914), European international relations were increasingly shaped by alliance diplomacy...
Ottoman Empire
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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman...
Holy Roman Empire
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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire officially lasted from 962 to 1806. It was one of Europe’s largest medieval and early modern states, but its power base was unstable and continually shifting. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state...
Franks
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Franks

The Franks were a Germanic people who originated along the lower Rhine River. They moved into Gaul during the Migration Age, where they established one of the largest and most powerful kingdoms in Europe after the fall of the Western...
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