No more than 5 percent of Ukrainians identify themselves as atheists, which also indicates a similarity between the two ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if ...

This man, who seems to have mistaken his role as the leader of a fading imperial Island of Iniquitities, a relic on its last ...

And the court ordered the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to rename those streets that reek of colonialism, those of the imperial ... relics of the British colonial empire.

There are several dozen graves from the second world war (and some from the first) in churchyards near my village on ...

Monarchs strive to make their mark on history, but King George V could never have imagined that, almost 90 years after his ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...

The Greek War of Independence that begun in 1821 is full of memorable events, most of them bloody battles and heroic feats.

Mehmed was alone at the imperial court ... that the Ottoman empire moved in an increasingly moderate and liberal direction with time, not unlike the Mughals or the British, developing a broad ...

The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...