Inland navigation on Gangetic rivers was a lengthy and risky business — until the arrival of William Tolly, an officer of the ...

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

Here the fields of corn and soybeans go on forever, and here the road into town makes incongruous turns in a territory whose byways are defined by 90-degree angles. Here, in the mere course of a ...

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New political order established at the Congress of Vienna After the victory over Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna met from September 1814 to June 1815 to redraw the political map of Europe ...

Located just outside the city proper, Bonaventure Cemetery deserves its reputation as one of the most beautiful final resting ...

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Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

Member states must spend more, better and European, EU Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius and the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas urge in a draft of the upcoming White Paper on the Future of ...