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Crimean War: A Historical Documentary

The Crimean War (1853–1856) pitted the Russian Empire against an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and later Sardinia. Fought over influence, territory, and balance of power, it became ...
Nikolas Farantouris, as a member of the Security and Defense Committee and coordinator of the Constitutional Affairs ...
Member of the European Parliament Nikolas Farantouris of the SYRIZA party continues his strong advocacy for the Christians of ...
A documentary about the Elgin Marbles which features Brian Cox will premiere at the Central Scotland Documentary Festival ...
The decision by four nations from the West, which has traditionally allied with Israel, aligned them with more than 140 other ...
Albania has been dubbed ‘the Maldives of Europe’, but there’s so much more to this fascinating country ] Lea Ypi (the surname is pronounced Oupee) was born in Tirana in 1979. She thus came of age “at ...
After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at ...
Syrian-born Rawan Osman was bombarded by antisemitic propaganda as a child; her unique 'journey' began with a kind Jewish ...
A jewel in Brittany's tourism crown, overlooking the Rance river, Dinan is like a medieval time-warp experience.
Tbilisi has a gift for turning thresholds into rooms. Streets slip from Ottoman balconies into Soviet courtyards; a single ...
There are names that are making headlines. They happen to turn their columns into both a weapon in the fight for freedom of ...
As the Romantic movement reached its crescendo across Europe in the early nineteenth century, few collaborations seemed as unlikely – and as fruitful – as that between Lord Byron, the scion of Eng ...