Author: Ervino Curtis

Trieste in the 1700s experienced exceptional development due to the Habsburgs’ decision to create their main port there; in addition to the development of port infrastructure, the city, economy and population grew in that period. Trade firms, representations of foreign firms, shipping companies, etc. grew, and diplomatic representations also grew, the first consulate being opened […]

For many Westerners, Wallachia and Transylvania are somewhere in the world where Dracula lives and garlic is used against vampires. Few people know the story of Prince Vlad Tepes or that of the Eastern Romans, in short, the Romanians. Actually, the story of Dracula as a vampire was derived from the novel by an obscure […]

One of the political-military events of Europe in the period of the late first century and early second century A.D. was the warlike confrontation between the Roman Empire, led by Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus, and the unitary Dacian state with King Decebal who remained at the head of his people from 87 A.D. to 107 […]