On 3 July we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis. It is symbolic that it is this year ...

The Balkans is sometimes called The Wine Peninsula. In its center is North Macedonia, a small country with big wines, not ...

When World War I ended in 1918, the winners, principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected ...

Europe’s least crowded beach has been named ... and it remains the largest ever built in the Balkan Peninsula, so it’s very much worth a visit. There’s also the Durrës Archaeological ...

The mountainous eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and its hinterlands in Europe’s Balkan Peninsula have one of the world’s highest densities of countries: six, across a broad equilateral triangle of ...

South Acarnania Kingdom 7th – 1st century BC Europe: Balkans Basternae Various Tribal confederation 200 BC – 300AD Europe: Balkans Dacia Sarmizegetusa, Regia Kingdom/empire 700 BC – 106 AD Europe: ...

Having a noticeable lack of wanderlust recently? Let your imagination wander with these thrilling hikes around Europe ...

The only gap on the SEPA map is the Western Balkans, but these countries are also preparing to join the system, some faster, some slower. The offer to join has been open for a long time, and it was ...

The most dangerous outcome of the destruction of command socialism in the Balkans has been the resurfacing of militant nationalism particularly, it seems, in the western part of the peninsula ...

Wahhabism, an extremist offshoot of Sunni Islam, is an 18th century movement that calls for a return to an idealized form of Islam as practiced in the Arabian peninsula ... of the Balkans as staging ...