Discover Belisarius, the military genius who reconquered Rome, Africa, and Italy for the Byzantine Empire with a tiny elite force of horse archers.

A deep love for the sacrifice of the Greek communities in preserving their Greek identity is remembered in 2026 by Greek Americans ...

MGM Empire City in Yonkers has withdrawn its application for one of three state gaming licenses up for grabs in the downstate region, saying the economic conditions have changed. In a letter to the ...

Kumbi Saleh is regarded as one of the earliest major political and commercial capitals of West Africa. Located in present-day Mauritania, near the border with Mali, the city stood at the heart of the ...

Smartly situated Lyon — just south of Burgundy, north of Provence, east of the Alps, and centered on a peninsula at the ...

Washington, D.C. is famous for its Smithsonian museums, but beyond those well-known institutions the city hides several ...

Here's what happens when people in power decide to let silly squabbles influence their possibly world-altering decisions.

The Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape ...

Slavic migration into Greece reshaped the peninsula, driving demographic change and creating a multi-ethnic Byzantium.

In Montenegro, walk through Kotor’s Venetian stronghold and explore Albania’s Roman amphitheaters and Byzantine monasteries.

In an ancient Turkish region lies an abandoned underground city of 20,000 inhabitants (per BBC). Part of a UNESCO World ...

Constantinople on N.W. 21st Avenue draws on centuries of Anatolian and Ottoman culinary tradition to craft its sprawling menu ...