The Balkans have always felt like one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. A region where history, culture, and breathtaking ...

Belgrade witnessed the largest demonstration in Serbia’s history and one of the biggest in Europe in recent years. Despite ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

These historical trade arteries connect cities and castles, palaces and pagodas and they provide easy transport routes ...

Located in a Serb minority enclave on the outskirts of the Kosovo capital Pristina, the establishment is just a stone's throw ...

Serbia has never recognised Kosovo's independence ... of that history -- taking in the extensive span of the old Ottoman empire and Central European fare. "Everything is made with the heart ...

A British Muslim journalist has composed an Andalusian-style nashīd commemorating the massacre and displacement of Balkan ...

The late American historian Paul Schroeder’s interpretation of the causes of World War I focuses on the breakdown of a ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Until the end of the 17th Century, Serbia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. At the end of that century, the northern part of the ...

The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and ...