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All rights reserved. en-gb contact@historyfiles.co.uk (The History Files) https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/images/rss/historyFilesTitle_rss.png https://www.historyfiles.co.uk https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/MainNewLists.htm St Anthony's Roman Catholic Church (Mill Street) is the result of Catholicism returning to Ottery St Mary in 1927, with this church being built in 1935. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon29.htm Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:00:01 GMT This modern state with its capital at Bangui has one of the world's poorest populations thanks to continued instability since it achieved restored independence in 1979. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaCAR.htm Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Control of the country was effectively seized in 1966 by Jean Bedel Bokassa and, just a decade later, he had himself declared emperor with the republic as his own empire of Central Africa. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaCentral.htm#Empire Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Nicholas, Ash, probably replaced a Saxon wooden building when it was erected in the twelfth century, with its tower becoming a navigation aid for boats using the low-lying coastal network of trading waterways. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthEast/Kent_Dover11.htm Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:00:01 GMT Full independence was achieved in 1960, incorporating many of the area's former sultanates, but the republic was short-lived as it was seized in 1966. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaCentral.htm Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT France on 15 January 1910 formed the 'Federation of French Colonies' out of all of its Central African colonial possessions, along with many later revisions. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/ColonialCentralAfrica.htm Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT West Looe (Second) Bible Christian Chapel was built in 1889 to replace the town's small Salem Chapel, but this has since closed down and has been rebuild to accommodate apartments. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon16.htm Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT This was a short-lived power of two generations which formed through extreme violence in territory to the east of Lake Chad, much of which had only recently belonged to the fading Bornu empire. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/SultanatesZobeir.htm Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Talanus, Talland, was built in the 1200s by Augustinian monks from Launceston priory, and the present-day structure still carries remnants of that original church building. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon15.htm Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:00:01 GMT Zemio was a Vungara-Zande kingdom in CAR, but one which had undergone some reorganisation and change, with its origins laying with Nounga, a member of a Zande clan which belonged to the Angoura branch of the Anounga. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/SultanatesZemio.htm Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT It was Mbomu people who created the Vungara clan state (otherwise shown as Avungarara in English, or Voungara in French-language sources). https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaZandeVungara.htm Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT St Bueno's Church is often referred to as Culbone Church, said to be the smallest parish church in England which seats thirty-three and can only be reached on foot. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset11.htm Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:01 GMT The Zande recognise a single ancestor by the name of Ngoura, who lived at the end of the eighteenth century and is believed to have died around 1800. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaZande.htm Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT This sultanate's initial founder was Kassanga, perhaps a warlord or an exile who had his own following, although he may also have been the brother of the Nzakara chief, Ndounga. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/SultanatesRafai.htm Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Some Bandia amalgamated into Zande groups to form the Bandia of the Chinko, while the state of Djabir to the east was also largely driven by Bandia folk. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaBandiaChinko.htm Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Alongside rattles, dolls form one of the oldest forms of toy in the world, dating back thousands of years to the earliest human communities. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesAfrica/EgyptDolls01.htm Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT This group's supreme chief established a capital on the sacred hill of Mbounguia, about twenty kilometres to the east of the later city of Bangassou in today's CAR. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaVouKpata.htm Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Sclerder Abbey and the twin chapels of Our Lady of Light form part of a former Carmelite monastery which originated with the chapels in 1840, while the abbey was founded in 1843. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon14.htm Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:00:01 GMT This was descended from a Bandia clan state which was set up along the River Ubangi in the late 1600s when the region was being settled by various groups which were arriving from all directions. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/SultanatesBangassou.htm Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Inwards migrants were generally Adamawa-Ubangi-speaking peoples such as the Banda and the Zande-Nzakara (or Azande and Nzakara) in eastern CAR. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaNzakaraUbangi.htm Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT Ottery St Mary Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1829, becoming the town's Methodist church at the 1932 union but closing before 2025. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon28.htm Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT By about 1700 Bandia people had formed a tribal state from the Mongbandi or Ngbandi grouping in Africa, located along the River Ubangi with Ngoungou as the first chief. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAfrica/AfricaBandiaUbangi.htm Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT Central Africa in the 1800s was a land of uncertain, shifting borders, with small states expanding to incorporate previously stateless tribal societies, and European powers making their presence increasingly felt. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesAfrica/AfricaCentral_MapAD1897.htm Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT A political entity in post-Greek Sogdiana rather than a single-language community in the modern sense, and with strong cultural links to the Kushan, Greater Yuezhi, Alani, Saka, Scythians, and Indo-Iranians in general. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/AsiaKangju.htm Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT During his visit to the USA, the third trip of his papacy, Pope John Paul II also visited New York where he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. https://americanlives.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesRetrospectives/WashingtonDC_Washington1970s_01.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT Central African states are classified into three overall phases: native, colonial, and post-colonial, with a variety of names to record. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/MainListsAfrica.htm#CentralAfrica Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT Pelynt (Second) Summer Lane Chapel, Pelynt, has also been referred to as Bethel Chapel, probably the name it was always locally known by from 1885. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon13.htm Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT The tabula is especially useful in providing unique mentions of the populations of several Celtic or Celtiberian towns in very-recently-conquered eastern Iberia, an area which Rome had only just subdued. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianBelli_TabulaContrebiensis_Full.htm Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Belli economy was based on agriculture, with a healthy side-line in livestock management and with a metalworking industry using iron ore which came from the mines of Moncayo. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/BarbarianBelli.htm Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The settlement of Simonsbath was established after Exmoor was purchased by John Knight in 1818, with the Church of St Luke being built following a petition by local estate workers. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset10.htm Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT Michael VIII was able to found the Palaeologus dynasty and, in 1261, returned to Constantinople to form its last ruling Roman dynasty. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumPalaeologus.htm Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT It was John VI Cantacuzenes who reorganised the captured eastern half of Morea (the Peloponnese) into a despotate which primarily would be governed by sons of the restored emperor in Constantinople. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumMorea.htm Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT This updated six part feature starts with the earliest immigrants to arrive in India, African migrants who entered the sub-continent between about 75,000-60,000 BC. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesFarEast/IndiaHistory01.htm Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The last Greek officer who managed to keep his head in 1204 was General Theodore Lascaris, who left for Nicaea where he founded a rival Laskarid dynasty of his own as the first of the 'Exiles'. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumNicaea.htm Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT St John's Church is a Grade 2 listed chapel-of-ease which was privately built in 1838 by the Reverend W Rawlings, former rector, and it remained private property until 1887. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Cornwall_Caradon12.htm Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT The established Eastern Roman authorities in 1204 (without the emperor himself) withdrew to Nicae in Anatolia, but rival claimants also established holdings in Trebizond, Epirus, and Thessalonica. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumTrebizond.htm Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The state of Athos was created during the co-emperorship of John I Zimiskes, third husband of the now-exiled Empress Theophano of the Macedonian dynasty. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceAthos.htm Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry, is located in the seventh century 'eastern district' when Eastry formed the capital of the more senior East Kent kings. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthEast/Kent_Dover10.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT This kingdom was centred on the strategically important city of Thessalonica which had been a major political, economic, and cultural hub within the Eastern Roman empire. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceFourthCrusadeThessalonica.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The duchy of Naxos (or duchy of the Archipelago) was created over the course of a couple of years of fighting out of a number of Aegean islands which had been part of the Eastern Roman empire. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceFourthCrusadeNaxos.htm Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT Otho de la Roche gained a strip of central Greece from where he ruled over Attica and Boeotia, treating his Athenian subjects with more consideration than any of his fellow crusaders. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceFourthCrusadeAthens.htm Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT William of Champlitte gained Achaia, hewing out a principality in the western parts of the Peloponnesus and creating a small state which consisted of twelve baronies. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceFourthCrusadeAchaia.htm Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT St Gregory's Church, Venn Ottery, has a complicated structural history with the red stone tower being its oldest surviving section, potentially Anglo-Saxon. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Devon_EastDevon27.htm Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT Upon the Latin seizure of Constantinople, claimants to the Eastern Roman throne set up rival powerbases, including this one in Epirus (formerly the territory of a Greek kingdom of Epirus). https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GreeceByzantiumEpirus.htm Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT The Church of St Andrew, Withypool, is the oldest building in the village, built in the late twelfth century with a stone with part of a cross set into the north-west buttress of the tower. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBritain/SouthWest/Somerset_WestSomerset09.htm Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:01 GMT A map showing the divisions of the Eastern Roman empire in AD 1204 at the point at which Constantinople was captured by Latin Crusaders and the empire was divided into several smaller states. https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesEurope/EasternMapAD1204.htm Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT