Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' ...

The Carpathians stretch from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine and Romania in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some ...

Vilnius in Lithuania may not come to mind when you think of a European city break, but it really should - the city is ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union greatly affected this decades-old gas business. Russian gas now had to transit an ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

A current Premier League defender has been hailed as ‘one of the best in the history of football’ by former star Jose Fonte.

“The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington reported on Nov. 29, 1914, in a story ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

When you think about Europe, images of large wildcats are not what first comes to mind. Thousands of years ago, however, the story was different. Leopards, lions, and even cheetahs were once thought ...

President Donald Trump was put on notice Monday by a senior European official — international security is not a one way ...

Until now, it was unknown whether the climatic changes associated with this approximately 1,000-year cold period arose simultaneously in the North Atlantic region and Europe or whether it spread ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...