In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...
The seeds of Vienna’s so-called “rental utopia” were planted after Austria’s defeat in World War I when a flight of people ...
Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) announced on January 30 that Romania "firmly" supports the sovereignty, territorial ...
Timothy Olin, associate professor of history at Central College, will release a new book in early February, "The Banat of Temesvar, Borderland Colonization in the Habsburg Monarchy." The ...
The balance of power is shifting in Europe, and NATO member Poland is on track to surpass Russia in terms of having more tanks and armored vehicles. Two factors are at play—both tied to the war in ...
While excavating Visegrád Citadel, a 13th-century fortress north of Budapest, Hungary, that was once a royal residence, archaeologists uncovered a trove of military history. Inside a filled-in moat, ...
COMMENTARY: The newly retired Church leader’s greatest contribution was his work as the principal drafter/editor of the ...
This slowly but steadily created a simmering resentment within the capital of the Byzantine Empire for the privileged Venetians. Painting by Alexander Kircher of Venetian ships, after Venice was ...