The Gutians (Guti, or sometimes Quti) were one of a number of people who formed the population of ancient Mesopotamia. They occupied the central Zagros Mountain range from the last few centuries of ...

The sultanate of Rum was established after 1071 in territory in southern-central Anatolia (Asia Minor), formerly a Near East possession of the Eastern Roman empire. Alternatively known as Iconium (the ...

The first of the Kachari kings claimed to rule in the town of Dimapur in Assam in the early ninth century, although he was probably little more than a powerful chieftain. The Kacharis belonged to the ...

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).

This general map of Mesopotamia and its neighbouring territories roughly covers the period between 2000-1600 BC. It reveals the concentration of city states in Sumer, in the south. This is where the ...

Prominent during Rome's occupation of Judea were a people known as the Nabataeans. They are famous to much of the world for their creation of Petra (the Greek word for 'rock'), a unique city which was ...

St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the ...

The advance of Dumnonia's borders (presumed to be in the late third century) perhaps gave it the greatest amount of territory in its history - which it held for about two centuries. Around AD 550, ...

The Medes, or Medians, were a collection of Indo-Iranian tribes which entered the area of the northern Zagros Mountains from the start of the first millennium BC, during the period of instability and ...

Towards the end of the thirteenth century BC, the international system in the Near East began to break down. Communications between the many smaller states, especially in Syria and Canaan, and the ...