The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.
Belarus, which is part of a Russia-led customs union, has been hit with sanctions for allowing Moscow to use its territory to launch the attack against Ukraine.
And I secured instead a UK-wide temporary customs arrangement – avoiding both a hard border on the island of Ireland and a customs border down the Irish Sea.
The largest and most powerful of which are occasionally recorded for us by Western European scholars, who wrote about the dreadful Eastern heathens raiding their land, such as the Huns, Avars and Bulgars.