Geographical name changes can be a result of a shift in regimes, indigenous movements, decolonisation, or political factors.

During the day, the Russian army advanced in the area of the Kurakhovsky "pocket", occupying another part of the settlement ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Byzantium was named after its legendary founder, Byzas, and quickly grew in importance due to its location, which controlled ...

The shipment originated in Thailand with final destination Greece, via Constantinople, and the declared consignee company was a dummy. The drugs were seized and a preliminary investigation was ...

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They include ancient translations of the Quran ...

This year, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the definition of the ...

The Moscow-Constantinople Split Greece’s mobilisation to strengthen the churches of the Greek diaspora by appointing several hundred priests comes at a time when the tug-of-war between Moscow and the ...

John Paul II described them. Cardinal Sako recalled that both Churches share the Creed of faith established by the Councils of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381), the apostolic succession and ...

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