A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Discover 7 countries that are no longer in existence, vanished from the map due to various historical events. Explore their ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a ...

The implications of Turkey’s ascendancy extend beyond Syria. By asserting itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is reshaping the regional order established after World War I.

The Carpathian Basin and Southeastern Europe, historically a crossroads of empires and cultures, is home to Romania, a nation ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into Eastern Europe.

Titled Limud VeSeder HaYeshivah Asher Be’Ir HaKodesh Chevron [The study and order of the day of the yeshiva in the Holy City of Hebron], this eighteenth-century document forges a connection between ...

By the 20th century, it had become part of what Romania is now. The allure of Transylvania revolves around Dracula and the ...

Blessed are you when you come in and blessed are you when you go out' are the words inscribed into preserved mosaic tiles on ...