Brazil needs no introduction. The 5th largest country in the world area-wise and the largest in South America, Brazil has a rich and unique history dating as o…

Perhaps if there is any other city that's as important as Moscow to Russia, it's St. Petersburg (or Saint Petersburg). Historically, known by names suc…

We all are well-aware of the two beautiful island chains of India - the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. They became Union Territories of India i…

At various points in history, the extent of British India stretched from as far as Aden and Persian Gulf in the west to Singapore and Penang in the east. It …

Today's districts of Tamil Nadu - Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Salem, Tirupattu and Namakkal - were clubbed together in one huge district under the Madras Pres…

Partition of India is one of the most gruesome events in the book of world history. More than 10 million people got displaced, the largest in human recorded…

Northwest Passage is basically the sea-route (s) crossing the Bering Strait and going all the way along the Arctic Ocean through the Labrador Sea (between Gree…

Although the Spanish colonization of Argentina started in 1536 (as Río de La Plata under Viceroyalty of Peru), the complete formation of today's Argentina …

After the 1857-58 anti-Company revolts in northern India (or technically, Hindustan), the dominions of Awadh (or Oudh) and Bengal were left distraught. Extensi…