Stephen the Great of Moldavia faced escalating challenges from powerful neighbors, including Poland and the Ottoman Empire, while striving to maintain his principality's sovereignty. This video delves ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, first adopted in European society after Christopher Columbus arrived in the ...

Photo by Robert Piwko Into the Melting Pot follows Blanca (played by Suzanne Ahmet), a Jewish woman facing expulsion from Spain and setting ... Catholic Monarchs in 1492. At twilight on her ...

By Robert Piwko Into the Melting Pot follows Blanca (played by Suzanne Ahmet), a Jewish woman facing expulsion from Spain and setting sail for an uncertain future as ordered by the Spanish Catholic ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

When Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Americas in 1492 ... King Charles V of Spain hired Portuguese mapmaker Diogo Ribeiro to create a map of the known world in the 1520s.

Two athletes died while participating at the World Triathlon Championships in Spain on Thursday, the sport’s governing body has confirmed. Both competitors – one from Mexico and one from Great ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally Catholic but instead a Sephardic Jew likely from Spain who hid his heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study suggests. A decades ...

Imaginative company The Telling perform Into the Melting Pot at Otley Courthouse on 25 May, a play about Jewish, Christian & Muslim women in Spain in 1492 by award-winning Clare Norburn & BAFTA ...