Europe is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Atlantic Ocean is to the west of the continent. Europe is above the Equator and the very north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle. The ...

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

A large pamphlet proudly proclaimed Albania - The Only Socialist Country In Europe! I'd never heard of Albania and certainly wasn't aware that ... But I knew it wasn't a nice thing to be. I went home ...

Albania was under the rule of a communist dictatorship from 1946 until the early 1990s. At this time it was closed off and ...