The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

The membership of the BRICS is currently generating concerns internationally, including Nigeria. Nigeria’s ‘partner country’ membership of the BRICS and the intellectual controversies it is currently ...

The treaty changed the European political order established since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and established Luxembourg as a neutral political entity. Before signing the Treaty of London of ...

It is a peculiarly European creation, and came into adolescence with Klemens von Metternich and the 1815 Congress of Vienna. It matured into full adulthood in Versailles at the end of World War I and ...

For a brief moment their hopes were reignited when Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw, but it was a short-lived triumph which died with his defeat in 1815. The Kingdom of Poland, created after the ...

New political order established at the Congress of Vienna After the victory over Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna met from September 1814 to June 1815 to redraw the political map of Europe. The ...

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria, Prussia and Russia signed a declaration stating that they would respect the nationality of their Polish subjects. This was one of the first recorded formal ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, concluded his term as archbishop of Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, his 80th birthday, when Pope Francis accepted his resignation. Schönborn, a theologian who ...

Vienna’s New Year’s Concert was performed, for the seventh time, under the baton of Italian conductor Riccardo Muti. Muti is closely associated with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which ...

The Vienna New Year’s Concert is one of the most famous events in the classical music calendar, so we take a look at the music you can expect to hear. New Year’s Day in Vienna. That phrase has a ...