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In both size and ferocity, the fighting on the eastern front from 1914–17 outdid even the western front. So why, asks Nick Lloyd, has eastern Europe become the forgotten theatre of the First World War?

The Editors on surfing, Kandinsky, Janice Biala, the Tower of Babel & more from the world of culture.

Israeli democracy openly flaunts its ethnic prejudices.

The author visited her great-grandparents’ graves to inspire her

Learn how Napoleon impacts genealogy today, plus take a look at Napoleon’s family tree.

Robert Ficos election win in Slovakia after he had campaigned to end military aid to Ukraine shows creeping discontent in Central Europe over the war with Russia, but analysts do not expect a...

Despite the cross-border growth of Hungary’s OTP Bank and the regional potential of Romania’s Banca Transilvania, banking in central and eastern Europe is increasingly a national game.

Pale , (from Latin palus, “stake”), district separated from the surrounding country by defined boundaries or distinguished by a different administrative and legal system. It is this definition of pale from which the phrase “beyond the pale” is derived. In imperial Russia, what came to be called the

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From the blog of Mort Laitner at The Times of Israel