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When the Romans conquered the region that is now Austria about 14 B.C., it was inhabited by Celts.
The history of Europe is the story of many different peoples and cultures. Some peoples lagged behind, while others surged far ahead in the development of social, intellectual, and political institutions and ideas.
The Illyrians, an Indo-European people, settled the Adriatic shore (the Dalmatian coast) about the 12th century B.C.
The area of modern Belarus was settled by East Slavic peoples before 800 A.D. It was ruled by Kiev from the 9th to the 12th century, and thereafter splintered into separate principalities.
Belgium formed part of Roman Gaul and of the Merovingian and Carolingian states. In the Middle Ages it was divided into the county of Flanders (ruled by a count) and the duchies of Hainaut and Brabant (ruled by dukes).
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The region covered by Bosnia-Herzegovina was part of the Roman Empire. By the 13th century the region accepted Hungarian kings as overlords.
In the seventh century the Bulgars, a Central Asian people, invaded the region south of the Danube.
During the seventh century, the Croats, a Slavic people, migrated from the Dnieper River region and settled in the area of their present homeland.
Various western Slavic tribes settled in the area that is now the Czech Republic during the fifth and sixth centuries.
Archeological evidence has indicated that southern Denmark was populated 60,000 to 100,000 years ago, before the final Ice Age.
England's first known inhabitants were cave dwellers who hunted and fished and lived under Stone Age conditions until after 2000 B.C.
The Estonians, an ancient people, originally came from a region just west of the Ural Mountains.
Ancestors of the modern Finns migrated from the Volga basin to the Baltic coast region sometime during the first millennium B.C.
Archaeological evidence indicates that France was inhabited some 400,000 years ago.
The kingdom of Germany was formed when the Frankish empire of Charlemagne was divided among his grandsons in 843 A.D.