Bulgaria celebrates Levski as the Apostle of Freedom. Born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on July 18, 1837, he was crucial in ...

With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or ...

The historical journey of Cetinje began in 1482 when the ruler of Montenegro, Ivan Crnojević, built a fortress in a valley ...

1855), the renown commander-in-chief of the reformed, European style Ottoman army in 1820s-30s ... it covers most of the major and minor routes within the Ottoman Empire. One of the maps I made ...

Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial ... Picot Agreement that split up the Ottoman Empire after WWI) and negotiated ...

A century ago, Germany, France and Britain claimed Cameroon at different times. The scars are seen in conflicts today.

The medieval Mongol archive, dating from the 13th century, had a profound influence on French maps and exploration.

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

directed her troops to conquer a town and lands that had been occupied for a couple of hundred years by the Ottoman Empire. The city was developed by a succession of foreigners — the founding ...