For centuries, these empires had represented the dominant form of political organisation in central and eastern Europe and the Balkans and the Middle East. These empires derived their legitimacy ...

The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into Eastern Europe.

The contest between Russia and Austria-Hungary, supported by Germany, for control of the Balkan heritage of the Ottoman Empire was the particular stage of the historic struggle for Eastern Europe ...

From the column: "Putin ... (desires) to reoccupy all of Eastern Europe to rebuild the Russian Empire. Invading Georgia in ...

Genghis Khan's empire continued to spread across Asia ... It would expand to rule lands from the Carpathian Mountains in eastern Europe to Siberia. Batu established his capital at Sarai along ...