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The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...

Nice (/niːs/ NEESS, French pronunciation: [nis] ; Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard, pronounced [ˈnisa]; Italian: Nizza [ˈnittsa]; Ligurian:...

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution...

The Rothschild family (/ˈrɒθ(s)tʃaɪld/ ROTH(S)-chylde German: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt...

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of...

The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture...

Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt...

Legia Warszawa (Polish: [ˈlɛɡʲja varˈʂava] ), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland...

The Left Party (Swedish: Vänsterpartiet [ˈvɛ̂nːstɛrpaˌʈiːɛt] , V) is a socialist political party in Sweden. On economic issues, the party opposes privatizations...

The Ardennes (French: Ardenne [aʁdɛn] ; Dutch: Ardennen [ɑrˈdɛnə(n)] ; German: Ardennen; Walloon: Årdene [ɑːʀdɛn]; Luxembourgish: Ardennen [ɑʁˈdænən])...

The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (German pronunciation: [bɛʁliˈnaːlə]...

FC Rubin Kazan (Russian: ФК «Рубин» Казань, IPA: [rʊˈbʲin kɐˈzanʲ]) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the...

The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's...

Clacton-on-Sea, often simply called Clacton, is a seaside town and resort in the county of Essex, on the east coast of England. It is located on the Tendring...

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Rozdělení Československa, Slovak: Rozdelenie Československa), which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the...

Greece faced a sovereign debt crisis in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Widely known in the country as The Crisis (Greek: Η Κρίση,...

Grantham (/ˈɡrænθəm/) is a market town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to...

The Dacians (/ˈdeɪʃənz/; Latin: Daci [ˈdaːkiː]; Greek: Δάκοι, Δάοι, Δάκαι) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia,...

The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the...

The Consulate (French: Le Consulat) was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799...