The leading people of the Ottoman empire were not Arabs, but from Turkish tribes. They speak a variety of the Turkish languages (Ottoman Turkish). Turkish is its own language family, Arabic belongs to ...

The first cross-country automobile journey was run by Bertha Benz in 1888.: With no fuel tank and only a 4.5-litre supply of petrol in the carburetor, she had to find ligroin, the petroleum solvent ...

It is depending on your definition of a Russian. Gagarin was born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, so he was the first Russian in space. Sergei Krikaljow (also a Russian) started ...

There was a separation between the noble french and the vulgar Old English. Or as I wrote in my comment: Who cares about the language of peasants I found a nice source for this assumption Middle ...

When Europeans discovered Americas they also imported plagues. These plagues were one factor of the collapse of the pre-columbian cultures. http://www.examiner.com/article/apocalypic-mysterious-...

how did it stay competitive with West Germany, which would be free of West Berlin's particular logistical challenges? Or were they being directly subsidized by the Federal Republic and/or the western ...

There was a Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik der Wolgadeutschen (Russian Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика Немцев Поволжья, English Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist ...

It is difficult to give an answer, what is a major historical event? According Wikipedia Carol Szathmari was the first combat photographer during the Crimean War (1853-1856). This was some years ...

There is a German Wikipedia entry for it, but I found no entry for this specific 'Schwedenschanze'. It is a military sconce (fortification) (German: Schanze) or Hill fort, the name is based on the ...

Your assumption is wrong, there was the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany And the Fall of the Iron Curtain was also initiated by the East German mass protests.

I think, it depends on the definition of a road. Most old roads will start as a path trail, later it will be paved. Maybe it will decline and become again a trail. I think some of the oldest roads ...

I found an interesting quote (section 1943 in Kobe mit CW-Virus infiziert) of a contemporary witness (translation below). The last sentence contains a short hint what happened to Germans in Japan ...

Algeria was more then a colony, there were French Départements in Algeria, from 1848 on until 1962 it was an integral part of the French motherland. See Wikipedia or the french wikipedia article ...

Afro Carribeans: Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace their heritage to Sub-Saharan Africa [...] Between the 16th and 19th centuries, European-led triangular trade brought African people ...

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946. 2001, Simeon resumed the role of leader of the nation upon taking office as Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria from July 2001 ...

I could imagine, it is a kind of spiritual home. Jews immigrated from Muslim countries to Muslim countries (ok, Spain was Christian when the Jews were banished, but it was a new thing, and the Jews ...

German physicist tried to build an atomic bomb, at least there were experiments. At end of WW2 there was a laboratory in Haigerloch. It is told, that American scientist checked everything and took ...

There is an overview in an article on China Whisper.com: China`s historical GDP share in the world Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) GDP per capita: $450, 26% Tang Dynasty 618 – 907 AD GDP per capita:$...

I found another hint in 'Histoire du dimanche: de 1700 à nos jours' by Robert Beck (page 154): Le surplus en travail que provoque le rythme décadaire, pourrait également constituer une raison du ...

I found a hit in http://www.documentarchiv.de/fs/ns_abkuerzungen.html: Ic Offizier für Feindnachrichten (English: Officer for enemy messages). There are some other websites with similar ...

One reason may be the size of the city. The Freie Hansestadt Bremen has 661,000 inhabitants (including Bremen and Bremerhaven), Hamburg has 1.7 million inhabitants. Lübeck has only 213,000 ...

You asked for a major cultural difference. My answer doesn't reflect a cultural difference but a political one. If you follow the link Gesamtergebnisse der Wahlen zum Reichstag und Mandatsverteilung ...

Omar occurs also in the bible Genesis 36:11 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz. Genesis 36:15: These were the chiefs among Esau's descendants: The sons of Eliphaz the ...

Another remark beside the problems of climbing an iceberg: A quote from Wikipedia: Hit an iceberg 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2 h 40 min later After 1 ...

Switzerland practices direct democracy and has many votings. There is a list of Swiss federal referendums at wikipedia with the results. The results are listed in the German version. A short ...

I think hunting restrictions existed during the complete history of mankind. Totems or Totemism seems to be one of the oldest religion element of mankind. There are taboos against killing clan ...

Was there a united Yugoslavia? There was a Yugoslavia, but it was split to Croatia (with Bosnia and Herzegovina), Serbia and Slovenia (which was again split for Germany/Austria Italy and Hungary). I ...

Oldcat already answered for the naval aspects. There were also plans to obtain a long-range strategic bomber that would be capable of striking the contiguous United States from Germany. From ...

What's ancient for you? There are old paintings in South Africa The Kingdom of Kush isn't in central/south of Africa, so I think it does not count. There is Great Zimbabwe (11th century) The Mali ...

The Spiegel mentions in an article from 2007: Danach wurden Verurteilte nach sowjetischem Vorbild mit einem "unerwarteten Nahschuss in den Hinterkopf" getötet: Beim Betreten des Hinrichtungsraums ...