The last stronghold of government control in Haiti’s capital is under siege. Armed gangs have taken over nearly all of ...

Haiti’s first commercial flight in seven months took off has taken off from the capital, going to the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where excited passengers hope to reunite with friends, relatives and ...

A 1,500-year-old map has led humans to discover a lost city from the Byzantine Empire. The Madaba Mosaic Map built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.) shows a total of 157 sites that were ...

Management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the First Review of the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Haiti. The SMP takes into account ... The report should provide a road map ...

Dessalines, who’s considered the founder, first took the title of governor general. But by the end of the year, he was using the title emperor, as he had proclaimed Haiti to be an empire. So, almost ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander ... conquer an organized empire. He was not the first.” ...

Historian Daut (Awakening the Ashes) offers a powerful biography of Henry Christophe (1767-1820), who fought for, defected from, and ultimately ruled over Haiti. She first sketches out Christophe ...

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This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire ... return to the east with its first Asian DLC, Khans of the Steppe ...

A second group of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti Tuesday morning, three weeks after the first contingent of 200 ... and to agree on a road map for holding long overdue general elections ...

Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world ... The book also comes with a handy list of dates and rulers, useful maps, ...

and the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, Sargon. If you were attempting to navigate West Asia today, it’s safe to say that the Babylonian Map of the World would be pretty useless – the ...