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 word Sudetenland did not exist as a unified territory before 1938. It emerged from the German language compound of Sudeten, referring to the mountain…
- 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 WestIn 330 AD, the Roman Empire shifted its administrative center to Constantinople. This move marked a turning point in how Greek and Latin functioned across…
- 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 provinceThe Latin word provincia began as a verb meaning to manage or administer. In the middle republic, it described a task assigned to a Roman magistrate rather…
- 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.