The Green Line is a meandering boundary that stretches across approximately 500 kilometers, and it lies at the heart of many ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

They present you with a narrative, a cultural map, a linguistic map ... and been shaped by competing claims over the city’s public space. Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, Jerusalem’s ...

Or is every bomb dropped, every missile launched, every bullet fired at children by Israel’s snipers, every threat to commit ...

They present you with a narrative, a cultural map, a linguistic map ... over the city’s public space. Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, Jerusalem’s signs prominently featured ...

For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles.

World War II would see the empire ... north and the Ottoman Empire in the south. After that, the Russians began a long trek east, conquering new lands in Siberia and crossing the Bering Strait into ...

The Nigerian nation-state was patented on the world’s political map as the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria ... Take Turkey, a country that resulted from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in ...

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

The major cities of Central Europe built along the Danube were the focus of key battles in the war between Muslims and ...