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

February 21st marks the day in 1913 when Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in northwestern Greece, was liberated from the ...

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

Suleiman I, the most dazzling of the Ottoman sultans, illuminated the 16th century, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He was the ...

The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships took to the seas, two ...

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev issued a decree to rename the capital’s airport after 19th Century rebel Vassil Levski, one ...

Despite opposition, the Municipality of Trifylia, southern Greece, uprooted a historic tree, tied to the Greece's War of ...

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

A son was born to Yakup, a converted Muslim Sipahi, and his Greek wife in the late 15th century in the village of Palaiokipos on Lesbos. This bicultural child, named Khizr, grew up with three brothers ...

At the start of the new year, on January 6, President Erdogan made clear his intention to streamline the production of the ...

While Montenegro has a military history dating back to the Ottoman Empire, its current situation is modest at best, ...