Between the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the ascent of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottomans doubled their empire, but did not attack Western Europe - why?

The Habsburgs did not acquire the Hungarian and Bohemian crowns in one wedding night, it was an overnights success 250 years in the making

Alt: Captain America says I understood that reference

The Italian wars begin for real in 1508 when Margaret of Austria puts together the League of Cambrai to rescue her father, the now "Emperor" Maximilian I

Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.

In 1500 the imperial estates stripped the Maximilian I of power. Why did they create their own imperial government? And did it work?

German history from the coronation of Henry the Fowler in 919 AD to German Reunification in 1990 in weekly 20-30 minute episodes

Why are the Swiss called the Swiss - and how did the first encounter between the two famous Renaissance forces, the Landsknechte and the Swiss Reisläufer turn out?

Podcast-Folge · History of the Germans · F226 · 1 Std. 3 Min.

Martin Luther was not the first to rail against the worldliness of the church. A hundred years earlier Europe went through a dress rehearsal of the Reformation, the Hussite Revolt. In this season we e...

Podcast-Folge · History of the Germans · F220 · 41 Min.