In Tirana, visitors can expect the same warm hospitality, as locals are eager to show off their hospitality chops as they ...

The Balkans have always felt like one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. A region where history, culture, and breathtaking ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

A British Muslim journalist has composed an Andalusian-style nashīd commemorating the massacre and displacement of Balkan ...

Enrique Iglesias will return to Bulgaria for an exclusive performance, marking his only concert in the Balkans this summer. After seven years, the global superstar will perform in Sofia, promising ...

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

The late American historian Paul Schroeder’s interpretation of the causes of World War I focuses on the breakdown of a ...

Konya as a Turkish city with a history stretching back to the early Seljuk era has a wide variety of striking minaret styles, ...

Serbs, Albanians, NATO peacekeepers and European diplomats all in one room chatting and feasting. Those Serbs who stayed in ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

The Svrzo House, located in the heart of Sarajevo’s old quarter, is one of the most beautiful vestiges of Ottoman architecture in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Eleftherios Venizelos, a Cretan-born leader, transformed Greece in the early 20th century, driving territorial expansion and ...