Curated category
Historical regions of Europe
- GaulGaul was a place that Rome first described clearly, a vast territory stretching across what is now France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the…
- East PrussiaIn the 13th century, Duke Konrad I of Masovia invited the Teutonic Knights to conquer the native Old Prussians. These crusading orders established a monastic…
- SudetenlandThe Sudetenland sits at the heart of one of modern Europe's most consequential territorial disputes. In September 1938, Adolf Hitler stood before a crowd at…
- Krasnodar KraiKrasnodar Krai sits at one of the most contested crossroads on earth. It is a Russian federal subject where steppe grasslands give way to mountains, where…
- Greek East and Latin WestGreek East and Latin West began as a geographic shorthand for the two halves of a single civilization, yet the divide they named would prove durable enough…
- Russian Far EastThe Russian Far East covers more than one-third of Russia's entire land area, yet fewer than eight million people live there.
- Roman provinceRoman provinces were the administrative regions that Rome controlled outside of Roman Italy, first under the Republic and later under the Empire.
- BoeotiaThe Cephissus river flows through the central lowlands of Boeotia, where most of the region's flat terrain lies. Mount Parnassus rises in the west while…
- RutheniaRuthenia is a name that has stretched across more than a thousand years of European history, attaching itself to peoples, kingdoms, and mountain villages in…
- ColchisColchis, the ancient Georgian polity that Greek poets called a land of gold, sits at the eastern edge of the Black Sea in what is now western Georgia.
- Seventeen ProvincesMary I of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy, died in 1482. Her death triggered a transfer of power that reshaped the Low Countries.
- PrussiaPrussia stood at the centre of the North European Plain and, for more than four centuries, shaped the fate of an entire continent.
- Low CountriesThe Low Countries sits at the mouth of one of Europe's great river systems, where the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt spill into the sea.