For the past decade, wines from the "New World" (basically everywhere outside Europe) have burst onto the imbibing scene and established a firm foothold. Turns out, though, that the Old World wasn't ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg, and refused to ...

Absent soles: Iron shoes line Budapest’s riverbank, memorializing Jews executed by Arrow Cross militiamen in 1944–45. Credit: Nikodem Nijaki In March 1944, the Third Reich occupied Hungary, a country ...

IF ONLY his great-uncle had died earlier. Franz Joseph I was a masterful ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but his 86 years brought rigidity when the times called for reform. This doomed the noble ...

Kremlin propagandists have suggested on state TV that Russian authorities create a new empire in Europe. The idea was floated by Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin-backed ...

India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn’t mean the example is flawed. Last week, Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an excellent article comparing India to the ...

A prop axe was brought in as crew members prepared a scene for a horror film inside Budapest's former psychiatric institute, one of numerous Hollywood productions currently under way in the Hungarian ...

Archduke Michael Habsburg-Lothringen, former ambassador of the Order of Malta to Hungary, reveals key moments in the Habsburg dynasty’s persistent work to bring Christian values back to Hungary.

"My strongest experience was the War and the destruction of my fatherland, the only one I ever had, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary." The fatalism of the protagonists, the living dead, and their ...