The Battle of Callinicum took place on the Easter day (19 April) of 531, between the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire under Belisarius and the Sassanid Persians under Azarethes. After a defeat at the Battle of Dara in 530, the Sassanids moved to take Syria in an attempt to turn the tide of the war... Read Full Article:
Howard Baskerville was an American teacher in the Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz when he decided to join the Constitutional Revolution Movement and fought against the Qajar King Mohammad Ali Shah. In 1909 Russian Cossacks laid a siege on Tabriz trying to break the resistance. When he was aske... Read Full Article: