which he described as “one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.” As it happened, Stoker never set foot there himself. English libraries provided all the maps and reference books ...

that no European gentlemen could have matched. Doda, left, an ethnic Albanian from a highland village in the Accursed Mountains, and Nopcsa, circa 1931. The men spent nearly 30 years together.

ACOPA do mundo é nossa” sang the Brazilian poet, diplomat and nine-times-married composer Vinicius de Moraes in 1970. The Argentine ...

Understanding the acceleration of human impacts on the environment is key to addressing the complex planetary and social challenges of the Anthropocene. But even as the inter-relatedness of ...

Brasov is just one of those locations, compared by Lopez to the great medieval European cities of Prague, Budapest, Dubrovnik and Avila. Featuring its own airport, Brasov was founded in 1211AD and ...

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

Ever dreamt of stepping straight into the pages of a medieval fairytale — minus the dragons and questionable hygiene? Yeah, ...

A new study in PNAS uses historical and ecological data to examine the rise and fall of Piast Poland, investigating the factors necessary for the emergence and sustainability of state-run social ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

Languages: English. Newsweek has created a map showing the European nations where governments and companies have rejected a U.S. directive applying President Donald Trump's rollback of diversity ...

As allegations of attacks and other incidents blamed on Russia piled up across Europe last year, a team of AP journalists set out to build an interactive map to help readers understand what Western ...