The Battle of Adrianople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 played a crucial yet overlooked role in Greece's fight for ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

These decades changed everything. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the most significant ten-year spans ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Trump accepted the cross and cited his executive order to end government overreach and hostility toward Christians.

Trump also introduced Kimberly Guilfoyle as the next U.S. Ambassador to Greece. He said she was a great person and a great example of Greek culture. Then Guilfoyle spoke. She praised the president’s ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

Lebanon is an Arab country of 5.5 million in Southwest Asia bordering occupied Palestine. This tiny country has had its ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

A century later, during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson invoked it against nationals of the Central Powers: the German ...