Built at the foot of Mount Vermion, the of Veria, Greece was the second most-important town, after Aigai, in the ancient ...

The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to ...

For more than 120 years, the focal point of community life here has been the Armenian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary, ...

The fifth-century bishop of Ravenna, famed for his brief but brilliant sermons, is honored as a Doctor of the Church.

Tenedos holds a significant place in Greek history, despite the sharp decline in its Greek population in recent decades.

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Outside of Greece's more famous cities, you'll find an ancient mountain town that is home to unique monasteries, churches, and prehistoric caves.

Ukraine is of visceral significance to the Russian Orthodox Church because it is seen as the cradle of the Rus’ civilisation, a medieval entity where in the 10th century Byzantine Orthodox ...

A crisis of language is a crisis of culture, and to see why there is waning interest in one, we must identify how we relate ...

They sat in pews under a coffered ceiling, dourly communing with El Santo, the patron saint of what would come to be called ...

BC: Marc Antony (Marcus Antonius) commits suicide aged 53. 10BC: Birth of Emperor Claudius (Tberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus).

The Golden Age of Spain lasted from 711 until 1492 CE. Muslims migrated from Arabia across the straights of Gibraltar to the ...