a Soviet republic in Germany
Germany was a monarchy until the German Empire lost the First World War and its political system collapsed. Within a…
Germany is younger than Mexico, Nepal and Liberia
Germany was established in 1871 when 25 smaller states unified. The independent states of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony etc. had jointly…
Caesar invented the Germans
Before Julius Caesar fought the Gallic tribes for Rome (58 to 50 BC), most Romans were unaware of “Germans”. Then…
Albania: poor but plenty of Mercedes
Communists ruled Albania from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. At first, they were friends with Yugoslavia, then with the…
How Malta is both Catholic and LGBT-friendly
Catholicism is Malta’s state religion with 84 percent of the population being Catholic. Though atheism spreads exponentially, religion is a…
A short introduction to Czechoslovakia
Before the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was a big multinational state and stretched from modern-day Italy to…
