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Ghosts of Spain
"Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War? The appearance, sixty years after that war ended, of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call 'the pact of …
The Ottoman-Portuguese Conflicts
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The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople played a decisive role in fostering the Renaissance in Western Europe. The Byzantine Empire’s influence had helped ensure that it was the custodian of various ancient texts, most notably from the ancient Greeks, and when Constantinople fell, Byzantine refugees flocked west to seek refuge in …