but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

Europe is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Atlantic Ocean is to the west of the continent. Europe is above the Equator and the very north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle. The ...

and will situate European developments within a global context. Each volume will also feature boxes, illustrations, maps, timelines, and guides to further reading as well as a companion website with ...

While intense rain caused devastating floods in Poland, Austria and Romania, there was barely a single cloud above the UK.

The following timeline and maps describe a few instances of Allied inaction and show just a small selection of the atrocities being committed in one area of Eastern Europe at the same time.

In the late 18th century, Poland disappeared from the political map of Europe and didn’t return until over a century later. But is the map the territory? Where was Poland when it wasn’t there? Culture ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

Even today it makes some archaeologists uncomfortable when geneticists draw bold arrows across maps of Europe. “This kind of simplicity leads back to Kossinna,” says Heyd, who’s German.

Even casual students of art history know that something big happened in Europe late in the 13th century ... calls “the infinite potential of the blank page.” It is as though the unmarked ...

On September 16th Europe’s most populous country opted out of passport-free travel by reintroducing controls at all its ...

Climate change is influencing extreme weather events like the flooding across six countries that has led to mass evacuations ...

As fighting continues to rage in Kursk, RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been keeping track of Ukraine’s incursion with an interactive map of events that uses information compiled and verified from open ...