Residents of Istria, the verdant Croatian peninsula that juts into the Adriatic near Italy, love to dwell on their eccentric ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

Tell has returned home weary after fighting with the Knights Templar in the Holy Land. Now seeking only a ... beyond his limits by the villainy of the Hapsburg court, Tell picks up his weapons ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US election and said Moscow was ready for dialogue ...

This year saw plenty of excellent books, as usual, on the 20th century – but the real gems were revelatory examinations of ...

At the weekend, it was revealed the prince had secured sufficient funding to stay in Royal Lodge thanks to a mystery ...

This village near Budapest has been pre-empted by the Hungarian prime minister's entourage. His father, son-in-law and ...

The show’s first room, “My Beginnings,” gives little indication of where Schiele’s style would land. “Drying Laundry” and ... The city is black and everything is done by recipe.” In the Habsburg ...

Along with the Bond Street lion clothes there arrived in Abyssinia last week the Royal & Imperial coach of Kaiser Wilhelm II (picked up cheap in Germany for $6,000), a team of the famed Habsburg ...

The Roman Emperor Galerius, in his dialogues with ambassadors of the Sassanid Empire, at that time under Shah Narseh, describes that “Rome and Iran are like the two eyes of the Earth,” which for two ...