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Present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Illyrian and Celtic tribes until the 1st century BC, when the Romans conquered the region establishing the provinces of Pannonia and Noricum.
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The Gola or Gula are a West African ethnic group who share a common cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western or northwestern Liberia and eastern Sierra Leone.
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During a wave of expansion, Bantu-speaking populations gradually left their original homeland of West-Central Africa and traveled to the eastern and southern regions of the continent.
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Thracians emerged in Serbia before the Illyrian migration in the southwest. Throughout the centuries, Thrace came under the influence of various empires, including the Persians, Greeks, and Romans.
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Bronze and iron were sourced both locally and through trade networks that spanned the ancient world. Gold and silver were predominantly used for jewelry and ornaments.
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The medieval history of the Sahel is characterized by the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire.
The earliest of these was the Ghana Empire, which was dominated by the Soninke, whose progenitor is believed to have been Dinga Cissé.
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San Marino derives its name from Marinus, an Early Christian and the founder of a chapel and monastery in 301 AD.
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The Lapita, a people who traveled from the island Melanesia, arrived and settled the Samoan Islands around 3,500 years ago.
Around 950 AD, warriors from Tonga arrived. Tuʻi Tonga ʻAhoʻeitu started to expand his rule outside of Tonga into Oceania reaching its peak during the period 1200–1500 AD.
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Saint Lucia was first inhabited sometime between 1000 and 500 BC by the Ciboney people (or Siboney), an Arawak people. The inhabitants called the island Iouanalao, meaning “There where the Iguana is found.”
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The first natives to live on the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, as early as 3,000 years ago, were the Ciboney (or Siboney), an Arawak people.
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The 'Library of Ashurbanipal' which includes a collection of over 30,000 clay tablets and fragments. While paper books are destroyed by fire, the clay tablets were in most cases baked.
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The Hutus are a Bantu ethnic group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda.
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The first known people believed to have set foot on the teritory that is now Russian were the Cimmerians. They ruled between 1000 and 700 BC.
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In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of King Asa (r. 910-869 BC), son and successor of King Abijam. When King Asa died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Jehoshaphat (r. 872-848 BC) became king of Judah.
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Greek historian, Herodotus, published a description of the population of Qatar describing its inhabitants as 'sea-faring Canaanites.'
Assyrian King Esarhaddon (r. 681–669) led a campaign against Bazu, an area which encompassed Dilmun and Qatar (c. 680 BC).
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Among the peoples that inhabited various parts of Poland were Scythian, Celtic, Germanic, Sarmatian, Thracians, Avar, Vlach and Baltic tribes.
The Scythians were descendants of Ashkenaz, the son of Gomer, the grandson of Japheth.
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Ships were moved from the Euphrates to the Tigris then sailed downstream to the lagoons of the Persian Gulf.
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The Inca Empire, the largest empire and dynasty of pre-Colombian America, originated at the city of Cuzco in what is modern-day southern Peru.
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Before the Spanish conquest of South America, Paraguay was the home of the Guaraní Indians
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New Guinea (as it used to be known), was one of the first land masses after Africa and Eurasia to be populated by modern humans, at about the same time as Australia. They were descendants of migrants out of Africa.
