China is steadily building a “Pax Sinica” in the Indo-Pacific through its aggressive maritime expansion, economic leverage, and coercive actions — especially toward Taiwan — while the world remains ...

Between the densely forested Zemplén Mountains and fertile lowlands of the Great Hungarian Plain, Tokaj is patchworked with ...

A centerpiece of the jewelry collection is the 137-carat Florentine Diamond, a celebrated gem whose disappearance led to ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

What started with the assassination in Sarajevo quickly turned into a chain reaction that Europe’s leaders could not control.

What if Austria-Hungary got mad and took over countries? Watch this animated map scenario unfold, with Austria-Hungary unifying and expanding across Europe until facing resistance!

The French aren’t having a great jewelry year, but the Austrians, on the other hand, can count on ending 2025 on a glittering high note. As reported in the New York Times this morning, a legendary ...

It was the morning of November 1, 1918, and the end of his reign was nigh – that much was clear to Austria’s final emperor. His multi-ethnic empire of Austria-Hungary was rapidly disintegrating as ...

A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. The Florentine Diamond, here set atop a ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was restoring Hungary's full access to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, citing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's actions on immigration. Following the move, ...