As well, since 1945, the USSR had a spy ring within Yugoslavia[128] and Stalin attempted to assassinate Tito several times. Stalin remarked "I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito".[129] However, these assassinations would fail, and Tito would write back to Stalin "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."[130] Yugoslavia would go on to become one of the main founders and leaders the Non-Aligned Movement.[131]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change#1948%E2%80%931949:_Yugoslavia

#stalin #tito #history #ussr

Its unexpected independence resulted from a boundary error in a land sale by Pope Eugene IV to the Republic of Florence. Due to confusion over two streams named "Rio" a strip of land became terra nullius.

Golden Turquoise Earrings from Tillya Tepe Tomb (Afghanistan)
Dating back to the 1st century BCE-1st century CE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillya_Tepe

#history

Avi-ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil about his new book on R. Binyamin, his take on binationalism, (counter-)zionism and how this relates to current historiographical and political debates within Israel.

Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2025.

I know that the violence today, and the occupation of which it is part, has a history and a politics which are man-made and can thus be unmade.

Watch this video before visiting the European Middle Ages. SUGGESTED READING • Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University...

In your opinion, which world war was worse and why do you believe this?

#history

A source: https://www.tiktok.com/@rl.magpie/video/7304599726693960992

currently, there are two different kbin magazines (=groups/communities) on history which slightly differ in their scraping habits:

(a) https://kbin.social/m/history/microblog/newest > has a soft spot for anything cinema, hence a little filmi for some reason

(b) https://fedia.io/m/history/microblog/newest > has a penchant for the history of both punk music and classical music (admittedly, i love this combination 😁)

additionally, both kbin magazines share an anticolonial stance

so if you like to delve into history on the fedi, i recommend taking a look at both magazines

disclaimer: i own both magazines

Louis Armstrong and his wife, Egypt 1961

A source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/92z44h/louis_armstrong_plays_for_his_wife_in_front_of/

#history

He was pardoned in 1781 after a letter was written arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.

Letter from church source in anti-Hitler resistance reporting 6,000 daily killings undercuts Vatican’s claims of lack of knowledge

1,800-Year-Old Statue Of A Water Nymph Found Underground In The Ancient City Of Amastris. Archaeologists have found a beautiful life-sized statue of a water nymph estimated to be 1,800 years old. The ancient statue was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Amastris (modern Amasra), located on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia. https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/09/08/1800-year-old-statue-of-water-nymph-ancient-city-of-amastris/
#ancient #anatolia #history #archaeology
https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/waternymphamastria.jpg

“In an era where the term “burka” evokes images of oppressive regimes, notably Afghanistan's coercive imposition on women, it may come as a surprise that the tapada limeña (meaning “the covered one from Lima”) was used as a cloak of female resistance to authority by the women of Lima for over three hundred years….

Women who wore them were described as “insolent vipers” by one poet, while they were even blamed for the 1746 earthquake which destroyed Lima: “God had punished the capital for the audacity of some women that everyone, native and foreign, considered to be an erotic symbol,” claimed La Vanguardia . In 1833, the feminist Flora Tristán wrote that the women of Lima were the “freest in the world” since their clothing allowed them to evade the surveillance of men.“

Rare And Tiny Ancient Stamps Found In Falster May Show The Way To An Unknown King’s Home: A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. ...he discovered tiny, curious objects that were unlike anything he had seen before.
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/07/26/rare-tiny-finds-falster/

#ancient #denmark #history #archaeology #metaldetecting