The Geographic Origins of Ethnic Groups in the Indian Subcontinent: Exploring Ancient Footprints with Y-DNA Haplogroups by David G. Mahal, David G. Mahal, Ianis G. Matsoukas

“…Several studies have evaluated the movements of large populations to the Indian subcontinent; however, the ancient geographic origins of smaller ethnic communities are not clear. Although historians have attempted to identify the origins of some ethnic groups, the evidence is typically anecdotal and based upon what others have written before. …”
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The Guangdong-Hong Kong nexus in grassroots collective actions amid Sino-Anglo interface, 1841 to 1927 by Kent Wan

“…Building on the works of prominent historians and utilizing the theoretical frameworks of analysts such as Charles Tilly (1978), the author examines if a Cantonese regional solidarity served as the foundation for popular movements, which in turn consolidated a rising Chinese nationalism when Canton and Hong Kong were the focal points of mass actions against imperialism. …”
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Skladatel Jan Vičar a analýza jeho folklorního triptychu pro smíšený sbor na české, moravské a slezské lidové texty Široko daleko by Karel Steinmetz

“…Jan Vičar, native of Olomouc (*1949) belongs to a group of Czech composing music theorists, historians and educators, such as university professors Karel Janeček, Zdeněk Blažek, Karel Risinger, Jaroslav Smolka, Miloš Štědroň and Vladimír Tichý. …”
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Jovan Cvijić in the books of the Serbian Geographical Society by Stanković Stevan M.

“…He is often and gladly quoted not only in the works of contemporary geographers, but also geologists, historians, ethnologists, urban planners, economists, demographers, sociologists and ecologists. …”
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Generation, Transformation and Place in Inga Iwasiów’s Novels Bambino (2008) and Ku słońcu (2010) by Ursula PHILLIPS

“…The analysis follows Katarzyna Chmielewska’s supposition that contemporary Polish fiction dealing with the past ‘constantly oscillates between memory and genealogy’, and that it raises raw issues not yet addressed by historians; it also derives inspiration from the new ‘postdependency’ studiesproposed by Hanna Gosk and Ryszard Nycz. …”
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Women’s History in Works of Chinese Scholars: Mid-to-Late 20th Century by Natalia L. Pushkareva, Yilei Li

“…Women’s history brought together those who were ready to combine Marxist methodology (with its deliberate attention to socioeconomic problems) with the concept of gender (which allowed an introduction of topics never studied by Chinese historians).…”
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‘Relays, signals, actuality: a return to Focillon’. Review of: Annamaria Ducci, Henri Focillon en son temps. La liberté des forms, Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg... by Jae Emerling

“…Ontologically art ‘goes further than…illustrate history’, he argues, which is why art historians must learn to encounter ‘modalities of life’ in order to write about how it creates ‘worlds’. …”
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Historical Sociology of "Sultan's Holiness" and the Concept of "Zell Allah"; Based on historiographical sources of the Ilkhanid period by Nayere Dalir

“…The concept of "Zell Allah" (shadow of God) has been associated with the concept of "kingdom" in the history of Iran during the Islamic period, and in a way expressed the foundations of the legitimacy and power of the rulers. Most contemporary historians and researchers with a holistic and one-dimensional approach have considered Zell Allahi's thought as a continuous concept in the context of Iranian history and have not paid attention to the conceptual differences and fractures of this thought. …”
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The Theme System and Byzantine Provincial Armed Forces at the Early Palaeologian Period (1259–1328) by Vladimir A. Zolotovskiy

“…The statements of Byzantine historians about the participation of stratiotes in military actions clearly indicate the preservation of the military-administrative function of “theme organization”. …”
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Historical re-enactments and formation of event tourist product of the country by Ivan Posokhov

“…In the field of historical re-enactments, a whole industry was formed; professional historians, ethnographers, tailors, gunsmiths and representatives of many other specialties are involved in their organization. …”
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Academic Seminars of the Center for Study of the Battle of Stalingrad by Maksim M. Zagorulko, Irina A. Lysenko

“…The round tables bring together members of the Committee for Culture of the Volgograd region administration, state archives, the Museum-reserve Staraya Sarepta (‘Old Sarepta’), Museum and factory Krasny Oktyabr (‘Red October’), the local historians, teachers and students of universities, students of schools. …”
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«Too much ideological bitterness has been added to this issue»: V. N. Andreev’s correspondence with M. Finley by Sergey G. Karpyuk

“…Andreev in the manuscript department of the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg contain letters from two historians. The correspondence of M. Finley and V. N. …”
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The image of N. M. Karamzin in Russian poetry by Galtsov V.

“…Karamzin is depicted in poetry as a Russian language reformer; the one who brought harmony into the ‘nature’ of Russian language; a discoverer, ‘Columbus’ of Russian history, in disregard for famous Russian historians before N. Karamzin; and a true Russian citizen. …”
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The View of Contemporary Researchers on the Relationship Between the State and Church in the South of the RSFSR During the Second Half of the 20th Century by Sergey P. Ramazanov, Mariya I. Sokolova, Alla V. Shadrina

“…Major obstacles for the scientists are selective character of disclosure to the public of the materials from municipal archives and archives of governmental institutions, partial loss of the documents kept in the archives, absence of official statistical data about the population of church-goers and its religious identity, different level of detalization in the reports of the officials for the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church and officials for religious affairs. Local historians have not yet dwelt on the reasons for the changes in the church structure of the region or on the problems associated with implementation of church policy in separate locations and have not yet produced an objective evaluation of the outcomes of atheistic education of the youth and working people in the south of the RSFSR in the second half of the 20th century.…”
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A propaganda document in support of the 19th century Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir al-Fulānī’s “Letter on the appearance of the twelfth caliph” (Risāla fī ẓuhūr al-khalī... by Mauro Nobili

“…The Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi, located in the modern Republic of Mali, was founded by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818 and left behind a huge corpus of Arabic correspondence and dispatches that is mainly unexplored by historians. This corpus, composed of documents related to the internal administration of the state as well as its relations with other contemporary political entities, is the result of the extensive spread of literacy in Arabic in the territories controlled by the Ḥamdallāhi central authority and its effort to establish itself as a legitimate regional power in West Africa. …”
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Could Iamblichus help us to understand one ancient relief? by Afonasina, Anna

“…The earliest evidences about the Pythagoras’ speeches, available to us are found in an Athenian rhetorician and a pupil of Socrates Antisthenes (450–370 BCE), the historians Dicearchus and Timaeus, and Isocrates. In the present paper I consider the content of the Pythagoras’ speeches, preserved by Iamblichus, in more details, in order to suggest a new interpretation of the famous grave relief from the Antikensammlung, Berlin (Sk 1462). …”
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TEMPLE DESTRUCTION AND THE GREAT MUGHALS’ RELIGIOUS POLICY IN NORTH INDIA: A CASE STUDY OF BANARAS REGION, 1526-1707 by Parvez Alam

“…There are debates among the historians about it. According to one group, Mughals’ religious policy was very intolerance towards non-Muslims and their holy places, while the opposite group does not agree with it, and say that Mughlas adopted a liberal religious policy which was in favour of non-Muslims and their deities. …”
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Some features of the Islamic Culture of Khwarezm in the Golden Horde Era by Malikov A.

“…Research materials: The article is based on information from various written sources and publications of Russian, Kazakh, Turkish source scholars and historians that shed light on the role of the Turkic languages in the religious culture of Khwarezm in the Golden Horde period. …”
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Hydro-Technologies of Mehrgarh, Baluchistan and Indus Valley Civilizations, Punjab, Pakistan (ca. 7000–1500 BC) by Saifullah Khan, Nese Yilmaz, Mohammad Valipour, Andreas N. Angelakis

“…The Neolithic Mehrgarh (ca. 7000–2500 BC) and Balochistan and Indus Valley civilizations (ca. 2500–1500 BC), in Sindh Province in Pakistan, have been the spotlight of explorations to historians, anthropologists, and archeologists in terms of their origin, development, and collapse. …”
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The Slavic Toponymy of Early 20th Century Austria-Hungary in Epistolary Intercourse by Daria Yu. Vashchenko, Anna A. Plotnikova

“…About a hundred items are drawn from the correspondence published by local historians in the book of letters from members of the Yandrovich family. …”
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