It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

Its congregation met up every Sunday in the village hall as part of the 'Atlantic Cluster' of churches on this stretch of the ...

The traditional 'founding' of Rome by the Latins was probably a formal melding together of various small villages in the area, a process which has also been observed in the late Villanovan in Italy, ...

Incorporating the Adunicates, Agenisates, Agones, Agoni, Anesiates, Aneuniates, Antipolitani, Apauni, Bromanenses, Budenicenses, Decietae, Epanterii, Hercates ...

The area which formed Sumer started at the Persian Gulf and reached north to the 'neck' of Mesopotamia where the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates meander much closer to each other. To the east ...

The Hurrians (or Khurrites) were neither Semitics nor Indo-Europeans, but their origins are obscure. They appear to have emerged in the Near East between 2500-2000 BC, probably from the European ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The European political organisation which would become the late medieval 'first' German empire was created in part through a single act in AD 800. The powerful Frankish king, Charlemagne, had already ...

The Roman city of Lindum Colonia was founded in the eastern section of the tribal territory of the Corieltavi. Popularly known as Lindum (modern Lincoln), this seems to have produced Caer Lind Colun ...

However, that name, Ki-en-gir, or Kengi, seems originally to refer to a central place which provided a pivotal role in a third millennium BC wider political association. This association included Adab ...

The founders of Kish (modern Tall al-Uhaymir, 80km south of Baghdad) were Sumerians: non-Semitic black-haired people of an unknown origin. Their occupation of the site at Kish began in the Jemdet Nasr ...