The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and fought against the Ottoman empire. Montenegro, the smallest of these states, declared war against the Ottoman empire on 8 October. Its allies followed ...

Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and agitator in the ...

War in October last year saw those countries unite as the Balkan League to attack the Ottoman Empire. Seven months of fighting were ended with the effective removal of Ottoman power in the Balkans ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

The legacy of the Byzantine Empire in the Balkans stretches back for centuries. Today’s politics should remember that the idea of Balkan states as homogenous entities is not natural. This is a ...

Gastronomy-wise, the Balkans are the European underdog. Balkan food sticks to the no-nonsense approach. These dishes are ...

it covers most of the major and minor routes within the Ottoman Empire. One of the maps I made visualizes some 150 postal stations through the main routes. These represents the right, centre, and left ...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev issued a decree on Monday to rename Sofia Airport after national hero Vassil Levski (1837-1873), a rebel during the period of Ottoman rule. The decree described ...