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…