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05. what do we actually know about Bangladesh?

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Well, the truth is, I don’t know much. I know it was East Pakistan for a while, and then turned into an independent country in 1971, after a viscous war. A poor country for a long time, annually affected by massive floodings in the delta of the combined Ganges and Brahmaputra, which takes quite a [...]
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Looking for Trouble

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  The title of Virginia Cowles’ memoir as a war correspondent neatly covers the contents. “Looking for Trouble” (1941) is exactly what this enterprising young female American journalist has been doing between 1937, covering the Spanish civil war, and 1941, when she wrote this book in the aftermath of the Battle of Britain. In between, [...]
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03. the past, and especially the recent past

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this is a rather long piece of text, to put what I am going to see the next ten days in some context, but if you like – I know some of you are not really interested – you can skip this, and go straight to the start of the actual trip. There is a [...]
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02. a bit of pre-Columbian history

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Yucatan is Maya country. Not so much in the Costa May, which stretches south of Cancun and has very little to do with the largest indigenous group of people in Mexico, but more in its many discovered, and probably even more undiscovered – jungle covered – Maya archaeological sites (as you know, the word ‘ruins’ [...]
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21. some Baltic history

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So let’s summarise that Baltic history a bit. A few years ago, reading up about Ukraine trying to understand recent developments there, I was astounded to find that the western half of Ukraine had been part of a Lithuanian empire. We are talking 14th Century, when Lithuania stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black [...]
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04. the Finnish history

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For most of its history, Finland was dominated by its neighbours. In the 12th Century the Swedes invaded Finland, in part out of religious considerations: the earliest Christian influences came from the east, and can be found back in Russian Orthodox burials. The Swedes, staunch Roman Catholics, considered their first incursions as crusades, in 1157 [...]
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12 April 2023 (2)

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Sierra Leone intermezzo The early history of Sierra Leone is unique: long before the Americans launched their idea of a colony for freed slaves, in Liberia, the British already shipped ‘black poor’, many of them slaves that had deserted to the British during the American War of Independence, to a colony purchased in Sierra Leone, [...]
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8 April 2023

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Some Liberia history Not much is known about the early history of what is now Liberia, located at the fringes of the great West African empires further inland, like the early Ghana, Mali and Songhai empires. As always, it was the Portuguese who were the first Western power to arrive, in 1462; they called the [...]
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4 April 2023

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A little on Cote d’Ivoire’s history. In the years preceding the arrival of Europeans the territory of Cote d’Ivoire consisted of an assembly of relatively small kingdoms, in the shade of the larger Ghana, Songhai and Mali empires to the north. Several ‘immigrant’ groups existed, like groups fleeing the Asante in neighbouring Gambia and Muslim [...]
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31 March 2023 (2)

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Another short intermezzo, this time on Ghana’s history. Although the Kingdom of Ghana, one of the early West African empires, was located well north of what was known as the Gold Coast in the colonial era, and had succumbed to its enemies already in the 12th C, the new rulers adopted Ghana as a more [...]
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