In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the ...

There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the ...

France, Germany, modern-day Syria (formerly the Byzantine Empire) and Greece have been the next most common countries of origin. Since the office of pope has existed for nearly two millennia, many of ...

But for quite a few rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire, that’s exactly ... packed off to the island of Prote (modern-day Kınalıada in Turkey) and never saw the palace again. But the story gets darker: ...