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The question "Are modern Greeks the same people as the ancient Greeks?" has been asked — and answered differently — by Byzantine theologians, Ottoman administrators, 19th-century European Romantics, German philologists, Greek nationalists, and modern...
If you ask a Greek person what they call their country, they will say Hellas (Ελλάς or Ελλάδα). They call themselves Hellenes (Έλληνες). The Greek language is Helleniki. Greece, in the eyes of the Greeks, has always been and remains Hellas. So where...
Slovak food is the food of mountain farmers and river valley vintners — built around what could be produced, preserved, and cooked over a long winter at altitude. It shares DNA with Czech, Hungarian, and Polish cuisines but has its own distinct chara...
Slovakia sits at the dead centre of Europe — bordered by Austria to the west, Hungary to the south, Ukraine to the east, and the Czech Republic and Poland to the north — and is visited by a fraction of the tourists its neighbours receive. That is cha...
Germany's Romantische Straße (Romantic Road) is one of Europe's most celebrated scenic drives — a 460km route through the heart of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg connecting the Franconian wine region to the foot of the Bavarian Alps. It passes medieva...
Every year from the third Saturday of September through the first Sunday of October, six million people descend on Munich's Theresienwiese meadow to participate in the world's largest folk festival. They consume approximately 7 million litres of beer...