In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, a book that encapsulates like no other the ineffable muddle of the Habsburg Empire, the eminent statesman Count Leinsdorf struggles to define the essence ...

On a continent struggling with overtourism, a Backroads walk reveals Slovenia, a hidden quarter of Europe that embraces ...

In di early 18th century, dozens of pipo for Serbia start to die mysteriously, allegedly becos dem dey haunted by dia dead ...

A common thread among these seemingly disparate challenges is a lack of adequate transmission lines connecting America’s ...

What is Karl Marx's statue doing in Chemnitz, though he never visited the city? And why is Nova Gorica/Gorizia considered ...

From 1526 the Habsburgs made Prague a place of retreat when the Ottoman Empire’s armies encroached on the Hungarian border. While they were in residence, Prague became the seat of an international ...

King George VI granted Edward and Simpson the titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but refused to grant Wallis the ...

King Felipe has awarded his mother with Spain’s highest honour as the 50th anniversary of her accession as queen approaches.

The Habsburg Empire later took over the city, which was still called Görz. It was a vibrant, cosmopolitan city — German, Italian and Slovenian could all be heard in the streets. Following World ...

The Austrian Jew David Roth was born in 1808 in Cassovia (now Košice in Slovakia, but then it was part of Hungary and as such ...

The wars between England and France spanned more than seven centuries. The most famous of these conflicts were the Hundred ...

Renee Hartman got the last laugh on Adolf Hitler. As a child in Europe, Renee was among the millions sent to Nazi death camps ...