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A direct railway link across the Italy-Slovenia border as part of a new Milan-Ljubljana train is bringing back the infrastructure of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A new route opening up direct access between between Italy and Slovenia will spin passengers back more than a century to the times of the Habsburg empire.

Where was Marco Polo born? What is his native country? A question that made little sense in the 13th century – everything was under the control of the Republic of Venice – is nowadays a source of debates, especially between Croatia and Italy. A new project tries to overcome them

'The Grand Canal, Venice' by James Holland For nativist movements across the world, the past is a rich source of material waiting to be reshaped. Nationalists hark back to a “Golden Era” of lost power and pride, constructing histories that are often then used to fuel nostalgia and resentment amongst the population. In 2017, for example, India’s government secretly appointed a group of scholars to alter school textbooks, using historical material to promote their ideological view that India is a Hindu country. We have seen that such tactics can be effective; in the early 20th century, po...