River after Russian attacks closed off Black Sea ports that typically shipped 95% of Ukrainian grain exports. Though still comparatively small, the Danube has become a significant outlet, and barges have transported grain down the river to the Romanian port of Constanta, where it was loaded onto larger

borhoods of Cairo. Episodes of mass violence and killing of religious minorities throughout the former territories of the Ottoman Empire — from the Danube to the Euphrates and the Nile — have been all too common in the last 150 years. Sometimes the victims have been Muslims (most recently in Srebenica

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o, Vitellius) following the death of Nero in 68, Vespasian quietly prepared his own bid for power. The legions of Egypt, Judaea, Syria and then the Danube all declared for him, and he sent his commander Primus ahead to secure Italy on his behalf. A major, and bloody, victory was achieved at Cremona, an

the arts. For evidence of the existence of power laws in ancient Egypt see [Abul- Magd 2002]. This would not have worked in for example the Rhine or Danube valleys, because while both these rivers have fertile land, there is also plenty of surrounding, rain-fed land, which is also available. A person w

might end before they tasted blood. French farmers moving from their crops to the trench lines of Flanders, Russian aristocracy crowding towards the Danube, the politicians who led them all - they operated, mostly, with this same conviction. British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey’s mournful meditation