The Ottoman Empire spanned more than 600 years. The history is laden with the legacy of the empire in the Middle East and ...

The First Balkan War marked a decisive collapse of Ottoman power in Europe as a loose regional alliance launched a ...

The famous Delacroix painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi returns to Missolonghi for the 200th anniversary of the ...

Armenia is the most homogenous country in the post-Soviet world, with 98% of its citizens identified as ethnic Armenians.

A modest ceremony was held on Tuesday 24 March during the established meeting of the members of the Presentation of Our Lady ...

Tracing the creation of Europe’s first designated urban quarter and the bleak reality for those who lived there ...

It's hard to imagine now, but Iran and Germany were once surprisingly close. A master poet, a German "Lawrence of Arabia," ...

Scores of empires have come before us. Each one believed itself indispensable. Each one believed its reach was justified. And ...

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Of course, what was an expression of ...

How can coherent sense be made out of Europe? Its history takes us from ancient Greece to the (most recent) invasion of ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...