In depth recounting of my global wandering
The inexorable Ottoman march continued with their execution of King Stjepan Tomasevic of Bosnia in 1463 and the conquest of Albania by 1468. The Croatians held on a bit longer conceding some of their territory when much of their nobility …
By the end of the previous essay, I’d broadly covered the wall of time from a few centuries BCE until about the middle of the 11th century and, I hope, painted a mural that, while lacking in detail, provided a …
In my 2015 journal from Scandinavia, I expressed surprise at the impact events in those three Nordic countries had on so much of European and, by extension, American history. Well, you can’t understand the Balkans without knowing its history. And …
Welcome back. It’s been more than a year since my last adventure and more than a month since I’ve returned from the 2016 excursion. As always, my plan is to take you along with me – this time to Croatia, …