Some castles are single buildings; Óbidos is a whole town wrapped in walls. In the center of Portugal, north of Lisbon, rises one of the most enchanting sights in the

For most of the second half of the fifteenth century, England tore itself apart. The crown changed hands again and again, kings were murdered, princes vanished, and the great noble

The smoke rising from Turkmen Mountain did not surprise the Turkish public a little. We had compatriots in Bulgaria, Greece and Iraq, but what was Syria? By the way, we

We came down to the earth to fly THREE boxes appeared in sight We took a taste and salt from life We reached out to the Essence of Tengri Kürşad

“THREE MOONS Tuğu” in the script called “Horae Apocalypticae” published in the West in 1860. This Tuğ used by the Ottoman Empire is one of the derivatives of the three-headed

Inventors of democracy, philosophy, and rational inquiry, heirs of Byzantium and survivors of Ottoman rule, the Greeks carry one of humanity longest and greatest stories across three thousand years.

Imagine a ruler who, during his illness, had Muslim, Christian and Jewish subjects all praying for his recovery with their holy books in their hands. After his death, prayers should

High on a great limestone hill above the fairy-tale spires and red roofs of Tallinn stands one of the most historically significant castles in all of the Baltic. Toompea Castle

On a small island in a shining Lithuanian lake, reached by a wooden footbridge and doubled in the still water below, stands one of the most magical castles in all

In the green and rolling hills of the Zagorje region in the north of Croatia, rising white and turreted above its own tranquil lake, stands one of the most beautiful