India during the 18th century was a complex landscape of rising and declining powers, divided among the Mughals, Marathas, Sikhs, and the Europeans. As the sub…

The three Baltic States everyone is aware of are Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . The formation of these three nations started loosely by the 13th century, an…

Bulgaria's map has changed drastically throughout history and the name 'Bulgar' is probably one of the oldest names in the world that has retained …

One of the most politically charged regions in today's Europe is Catalonia, officially an autonomous region of Spain. However, this post won't delve in…

The collapse of empires often leads to international powers converging to determine the fate of the region, dividing it into countries and territories that bec…

There is a distinction between Crown Colony and Crown Dependency and while most of the territories in the former category are independent, the three remaining …

On an early 16th-century recreation of a Ptolemaic map of the British Isles, a singular name Albion  denoted what today are the countries of England, Wales and…

Its 2022, and a war is going on between Russia and Ukraine. But the issue between the two nations isn't anything new and is part of various geopolitical te…

Perhaps the most famous reason for which Gibraltar is known is the ancient Rock of Gibraltar that dates back to the Jurassic era. It was also known to the Anti…

Post 1870 is the era of unified Italy that didn't disintegrate further. But going back in history, a small slice of Italian region was under a non-European…

At the death of Genghiz Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched throughout 11 nations (of today's era) - Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, China, Turkmenistan, …

Apart from the fact that Switzerland never took part in any major conflict, the country also holds a unique position of being one of those very few landlocked …

The story of Hungary is interesting as although its current size has shrunk to peanut, the medieval and colonial era was far more majestic. The Austro-Hungaria…

Italy today is a single sovereign republic. It's home to some of the magnificent empires of history, the most popular one being, the Roman Empire. Italy al…

For centuries, the maps of Spain and Portugal have remained unchanged with respect to the Iberian peninsula. We are not talking about their colonial expansions…