In 1795, the last of a series of partitions effectively wiped Poland off the map of Europe. Naturally the country and its citizens didn't vanish altogether, and the so-called 'Polish question' was an ...

Located in southeastern Europe, Greece as an independent nation is young, existing since the 19th century. Its civilization, however, is one of history’s oldest and most influential, credited ...

The fact that this 19th-Century technology is still up and running in the age of Instagram and Snapchat may seem rather odd - especially when you consider that the UK, which invented the telegram ...

Two Belarusian poems from the 19th Century have been declared "extremist", in a sign of an expanding crackdown on criticism of the authorities. Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich's poems relate to a ...