In 1914, Argentina was among the ten richest countries in the world and had a higher GDP per capita than…
For 36 years, from 1960 to 1996, Guatemala was stuck in a civil war in which various right-wing governments fought…
I’m sure you can’t wait to find out why nearly 90 per cent of Nauru’s population is overweight. But before…
Azerbaijan granted women the right to vote in 1918 – as the first Muslim-majority country and one of the first…
Cyprus became a part of the Ottoman Empire in 1571. So its population has been part Greek and part Turkish…
Communists ruled Albania from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. At first, they were friends with Yugoslavia, then with the…
Catholicism is Malta’s state religion with 84 percent of the population being Catholic. Though atheism spreads exponentially, religion is a…
Before the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was a big multinational state and stretched from modern-day Italy to…
The first Europeans visited Japan in the 16th century. As elsewhere, they established trade posts and started to convert locals…
When he’s not looking for booze close to the beach or climbing temples and stuff, the standard traveller is very…