The Treaty of Amiens mentioned Maltese, a language said to have originated in ancient Carthage. Having absorbed a great many foreign words, it had become an independent language. Maltese speakers could communicate halfway with North African Arabs and could even, to some extent, be regarded as using an official language of Western Arabia.
In the myth of Atlas, Perseus saw Atlas on his way back after cutting off Medusa's head. Atlas said to him, "I'm tired. Please turn Medusa's head toward me and let me become stone."
Perseus granted Atlas's request and turned Medusa's head toward him. Thus, he became the Atlas Mountains.
There truly was an Atlas Mountains in the Maghreb, the land of the setting sun. It stretched from southwestern Morocco to northeastern Tunisia and was Africa's largest folded and faulted mountain region. In ancient times, some North African kings claimed to be descendants of Atlas.
Georgiana had once thought the Hungarians intended to spread French among the Croatians, but after speaking with Cicognara, she realized she had been mistaken. The Hungarians planned to make Hungarian the official language of the Holy Roman Empire, so they made the Croatians use Hungarian.
After ending several Sieges of Vienna and winning victories over Turkey, the Holy Roman Empire intensified its interference in Hungary's internal affairs. The Habsburg Court did not return to Hungary the lands once occupied by the Turks. Instead, it casually parcelled them out as spoils of war.
There was also a peasant uprising in Hegyalja, a wine-producing region. Serfs with nowhere left to turn joined the Kuruc, then border troops, in resisting the Austrians. All of this led to the popularity of Kuruc poetry.
In 1794, a batch of manuscripts began circulating in Britain, France, and other countries. Written in epistolary form, they mainly recorded the deeds