Batavii - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Batavii: Encyclopedia Ii - Batavii - Location
They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Gallic Wars, as living on an island formed by the Meuse River after it is joined b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chatti: Encyclopedia - Chatti
The Chatti (also Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 69: Encyclopedia - 69
Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s - 60s - 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Years: 64 65 66 67 68 - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuyll: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuyll - History
The family dominated the region surrounding the castle of Tuyll (also written Thule and Tuil) in 970 (according to a letter from the firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frisians: Encyclopedia Ii - Frisians - History
The Roman historian Tacitus, in his Germania, mentioned the Frisians among people he grouped together as the Ingvaeones. Two different ty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frisians: Encyclopedia Ii - Frisians - History
The Roman historian Tacitus, in his Germania, mentioned the Frisians among people he grouped together as the Ingvaeones. Two different ty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germania Book: Encyclopedia Ii - Germania Book - Purpose And Uses
Ethnography had a long and distinguished heritage in classical literature, and the Germania fits squarely within the tradition establishe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Struggle For Independence And The Golden Age
History of the Netherlands - Eighty Years' War. For details, see the main Eighty Years' War article. Through inheritance and conquest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Germanic Peoples - Ancient
Precautionary Note: These ethnic names were culled from a variety of ancient and mediaeval sources dating from the middle of the 1st mil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuyll: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuyll - Coat Of Arms
[25] In 1623, King James I of England gives Philibert van Tuyll the right to carry a rose extracted from the royal coat of arms and beari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - 20th Century
Although its army mobilised when World War I broke out in August 1914, the Netherlands remained a neutral country. The German invasion of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuyll: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuyll - A Few Other Lordships
Serooskerke (Schouwen), Serooskerke (Walcheren), St. Annaland, Zoelekerke, Popkensburg, Tienhoven, Maelstede, Cappelle, Bieslinge, Schore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Burgundian Period
Most of what is now the Netherlands and Belgium was eventually united by the Duke of Burgundy in 1433. Before the Burgundian union, the D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Pre-history Era
The Netherlands have been inhabited since the last ice age; the oldest remnants that have been found are a hundred thousand years old. Du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Roman Era
After Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, he conquered Belgium and The Netherlands around the year 58 BC, which made it the northern border of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Holy Roman Empire
The newcomers merged with the original inhabitants to create three peoples in the Low Countries: the Frisians along the coast, the Saxons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Batavian Republic And French Rule
Against this background it is less surprising that, after the French Revolution, when Napoleon invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Monarchy
After the Napoleonic era the Netherlands were put back on the map of Europe. The country had always been part of the precarious balance o...   » Read the article