A former British colony, Cyprus became independent in 1960 after years of resistance to British rule. Tensions between the Greek...

The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I. In...

The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form...

After four centuries of Ottoman rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary took control in 1878 and held the region until...

Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830; it was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. The...

After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer...

Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat...

The landlocked Principality of Andorra -- one of the smallest states in Europe and nestled high in the Pyrenees between...

After declaring independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania experienced a period of political upheaval that led to a...

By terms of the 1960 Treaty of Establishment that created the independent Republic of Cyprus, the United Kingdom retained full...

Vietnam's early history included periods of occupation by outside forces and eventual power consolidation under Vietnamese dynastic families. A succession...