The sack of Constantinople in 1204 is often blamed for destroying the Byzantine Empire—but the empire was already imploding from corruption, civil wars, and disastrous leadership. The crusaders ...

The Bridge Between East and West. A poet and dramatist who published his early work before World War I, Miroslav Krleza is the leading writer of Croatia and a man of enormous infl ...

The UNESCO - listed city of Chersonesus, located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula was an ancient Greek ...

Today in History for Jan. 8: In 1324, explorer Marco Polo died at age 70. In 1438, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches met at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in an effort to form an alliance that ...