Prague History

Prague's history goes back much further than its mediaeval skyline, beginning in the distant days of the Celtic Boii tribe who founded the city around 500BC. Unlike the Celts in the rest of Europe, it wasn’t the Romans who displaced the tribe in AD9 but the German Marcomanni.The Marcomanni gave birth to the ruling Přemyslid dynasty, which remained

Democratic Republic of Congo History, Language and Culture

History of Democratic Republic of CongoThe Belgian Congo was created in 1885, essentially as the personal property of the Belgian monarch, King Leopold II. He provided only the minimum infrastructure necessary to support the extraction of the country's vast mineral wealth and killed an estimated 10 million Congolese, setting a pattern which has dominated