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HISTORY OF BURUNDI

including headings Ruanda-Urundi, A Belgian colony, Independence, Democracy glimpsed and lost, ...

Burgundians | HISTORY OF MIGRATION

The Burgundians are not far behind the Vandals in crossing the Rhine, in 413, but they remain more modestly just a few miles west of the river, at Worms. They are dislodged from here by the Romans in 436 and are settled...

Burgundians | HISTORY OF THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

Burgundians

The Burgundians are not far behind the Vandals in crossing the Rhine, in 413, but they remain more modestly just a few miles west of the river, at Worms. They are dislodged from here by the Romans in 436 and are settled...

Armagnacs and Burgundians | THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR

Armagnacs and Burgundians

In the early 15th century the political context in both England and France is radically different from the circumstances fifty years earlier at the time of the treaty of Brétigny. In England the new Lancastrian dy...

Ruanda-Urundi | HISTORY OF RWANDA

Ruanda-Urundi

The highlands of Rwanda and Burundi, east of Lake Kivu, are the last part of Africa to be reached by Europeans in the colonial expansion of the late 19th century. Before that time local tradition tells of many centuries...

During the 1990s very great strain | HISTORY OF TANZANIA

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

During the 1990s very great strain is placed on an already impoverished Tanzania by the ethnic conflicts over the border in Rwanda and Burundi. During a single 24-hour period in 1994 as many as 250,000 Rwandan refugees s...

As it turns out, this particular | HISTORY OF AFRICA

The scramble completed

As it turns out, this particular issue is resolved amicably between Germany and Britain - though with scant regard for the sultan's supposed claims. It is agreed in 1886 that the two nations' spheres of interest will be...

As it turns out, this particular | HISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

The scramble completed

As it turns out, this particular issue is resolved amicably between Germany and Britain - though with scant regard for the sultan's supposed claims. It is agreed in 1886 that the two nations' spheres of interest will be...

Burgundians are not the only foreigners | HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS

Flanders

Burgundians are not the only foreigners to commission paintings in Flanders. The Flemish towns, situated at the main crossroads of northern Europe's trade routes, attract merchants and bankers from Europe's other great t...

After this satisfactory resolution of the | HISTORY OF FRANCE

The king of Bourges

After this satisfactory resolution of the civil war against the Burgundians, Charles VII's reign sees an almost equally complete resolution of the much longer conflict with England.

The two large areas of...

After this satisfactory resolution of the | THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR

The king of Bourges

After this satisfactory resolution of the civil war against the Burgundians, Charles VII's reign sees an almost equally complete resolution of the much longer conflict with England.

The two large areas of...

For the next ten months Joan | HISTORY OF JOAN OF ARC

Capture and trial

For the next ten months Joan continues to campaign against the English and the Burgundians - usually with considerable success, for her reputation is now itself a powerful weapon. Paris is her one failure, in September 1...

The French king, Louis XI, makes | HISTORY OF EUROPE

The duchy of Burgundy

The French king, Louis XI, makes strenuous efforts to recover the part of the Burgundian inheritance which has been most closely linked to the French crown - the duchy of Burgundy to the west of the river Saône. He...

The threat to the Roman empire | HISTORY OF THE CELTS

Celtic retreat:

The threat to the Roman empire from Germanic tribes, in the 5th century, leaves the Romanized Celts dangerously exposed to barbarian aggression. Gaul is overwhelmed by Visigoths, Burgundians and Franks. In Britain, after...

The Germanic tribes continue to raid, | HISTORY OF GERMANY

German and Roman Europe

The Germanic tribes continue to raid, often deep into the empire. But their base remains north of the Rhine and Danube until the 5th century - when the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians and Franks move in vast...