Pope Leo XIV placed a special liturgical vestment around Archbishop Robert Henning's neck, representing unity between metropolitan archbishops and the pope.

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Over the centuries, historical studies have emphasized the Holy Roman Empire’s alleged diplomatic passivity, lack of political unity, and inability to establish efficient and centralized institutions.

Getting here is easy since flag-carrier Turkish Airlines flies to more countries than any other airline. Istanbul is the most-populated city with around 15.7 million inhabitants, but it hasn’t been ...

St Patrick’s Flag. Over time a cross developed known as St Patrick’s cross, which is a red diagonal cross on a white background, called the red saltire. In 1801, St Patrick’s Cross was added to the ...

Imperial sceptre of the Holy Roman Empire Credits: University of Pisa, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Roman. The biggest part of the mystery of the Holy Roman Empire’s name is the Roman part.

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

When it was first announced that legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola had sold his $650 million wine empire to self-fund his passion project of over 40 years because no studio wanted to, it read ...

This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

In 1241 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II wrote he hoped the Mongols would be “driven down to their Tartarus—ad sua Tartara Tartari detrudentur.” The first column of 20,000 Mongols advanced ...