Relying on leeks, potatoes, and a Pompeiian baking technique, Irina Georgescu finds culinary inspiration east of the Danube ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history that led to a series of divisions, also known as schisms.

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

Israeli immigrants have opened three shops devoted to their favorite street food, bourekas, including Bo.Re.Kas. in L.A.

Israelis are bringing their favorite fast food item, bourekas, to the United States. Bourekas are a savory Mediterranean ...

This is the fourteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek ...

The last time the United States formally “declared war” on any enemy — actually using that term — was in 1942 when Congress ...

According to the Russian President's decree, the order was conferred to Sergey Lavrov to recognize his "outstanding services to the Fatherland, significant contribution to developing and implementing ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Published in the journal Bulgarian Journal of Archaeology ... but also a sign of wider instability in the Roman Empire during ...

It saw Sofia, the Bulgarian capital ... lost two-thirds of the land it controlled as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It meant that 3 million ethnic Hungarians found themselves living outside ...