The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps ... in the Byzantine empire and its Orthodox Christian religion. In the mid-11th century, however, Kyivan ...

Odesa was founded under the Russian empire and is home to a largely Russian ... The New York Times One prominent target has been the 19th-century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Moscow Patriarchate actively transformed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra into a ...

But it was also cartography in the service of empire ... “This was the first map under the British administration: a vital snapshot of 19th-century Cyprus,” says Dr Christos Chalkias.

Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the ...

"When it comes to Afghanistan, ISIS-K is seen by Russia as a primary threat. This has been Moscow's long-standing position since the mid-2010s, which actually led Russia to align itself more closely ...

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

How the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra has changed after the expulsion of the Moscow Patriarchate, whether it can reclaim the shrine, ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...