A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

The House of European History falls into the familiar trap of portraying the Balkans as merely a source of violence and nationalism in the context of European history. Located in the ‘European ...

A century ago today, the Balkan wars began. On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on the weak Ottoman Empire, launching an invasion of Albania, then under nominal Turkish rule.

Iñigo Olalde, Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the UPV/EHU and Ramón y Cajal Researcher has, together with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE: CSIC-UPF) and Harvard University, led a study in ...

It has been fifteen months since the death in The Hague of Slobodan Milosevic, the last of the 20th-century Balkan strongmen. The former leader of Serbia had been sent from Belgrade to face trial for ...

The history of the Albanian people has long been debated, as they first appear in historical records in the eleventh century CE and their language is not closely related to any surviving Indo-European ...

Diverse cultures, turbulent history and breathtaking hidden gems: welcome to the Balkan Peninsula, often referred to as the Balkans. Since you all know about Greece and Turkey (yes, parts of Greece ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Europe's recurring nightmare in the Balkans has returned. On June 15, ...

IF MODERN TRAVEL writing was born somewhere, that place may be south-eastern Europe. A couple of centuries ago, when the Ottomans’ hold on their European territories began loosening, the region ...

Skull of an individual of East African ancestral origin found in Viminacium, with the oil lamp featuring an eagle found in his tomb. A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of ...