The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has often found itself at the ...

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This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the formulation of the Nicene Creed. If you’re not deeply ...

Ukrainian chef Yevhen Klopotenko spent years researching his homeland’s foodways in the wake of Soviet erasure. Now he wants to share them with the world.

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Anatolia flourished and enjoyed a long period of glory forging a successful alliance ...

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Gerald of Aurillac was an unusual man, and an even more unusual saint. As a nobleman, living during the second half of the ninth century, he held the secular responsibility of governing the region of ...

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