Category: The European Times

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama expressed hope that North Macedonia will support in the parliament the “French” proposal to end the dispute with Bulgaria, because otherwise he will demand “the very next day” that his country be separated on the way to the EU from “Bulgarian – the Macedonian file”. “We are definitely convinced that […]

Author: Prof. Plamen Pavlov In 1194, King Assen I defeated the Byzantine army in the Battle of Arkadiopol (Lozengrad) in “Macedonia” – Eastern Thrace The episode with the Georgian Liparites completes our knowledge of the Bulgarian-Byzantine military conflicts under the first Asenevites During the Middle Ages, regardless of the geographical distance and the large-scale water […]

A Florida vegan mother has been found guilty of killing her 18-month-old son after feeding him only raw fruits and vegetables. Sheila O’Leary, 39, faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted her Wednesday of killing her toddler Ezra O’Leary in 2019, the New York Post reported. In September 2019, a week before […]

Two American businessmen bought 300 bottles of champagne to treat all the customers at a restaurant on the island of Mykonos. The €54,000 bill was rounded up to €60,000 to allow for a tip. The wish of the two was that for every empty bottle, another one would go to all the tables, and the […]

The news ends the long-standing feud between the heirs of the Italian composer The house where composer Giuseppe Verdi lived for 50 years is for sale. The news ends the long-standing feud between the Italian composer’s heirs, the Guardian newspaper reports. The creator lived in Villa Verdi, near the Italian city of Busseto, for half […]

Patristics as Orthodox self-identity Whether by coincidence or as a trend, in recent times Orthodox patristic studies have shown an increased interest in the nature of patristics – as such, as well as in the question of how it should unfold in the future. The conference organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in […]

In 1979, an old DC-3 transport plane landed at a Marine Corps base near Beaufort, South Carolina. On board was an extremely unusual cargo, which even the military who served at the base came to see the unloading. Many boxes filled with screaming monkeys were carried out of the plane. The next morning they were […]

The breathtaking landscape with blue rivers and high peaks is combined with the rich traditions, fresh and unique cuisine of the northern Albanian villages The Valbona National Park and the Valbona River Valley, the pearl of the Albanian Alps – The Cursed Mountains, is a top tourist destination in the northern part of Albania, attracting […]

The editor-in-chief of the Orthodox encyclopedia Drevo, Alexander Ivanov, will be tried under the new law for “discrediting the Russian armed forces”, which represses anyone who publicly disagrees with the Russian war in Ukraine. This is clear from his announcement on the encyclopedia forum of July 1: “Dear participants in the project “Tree”/”Drevo”! Next week […]

On June 21, at the Klondike gold mines near Eureka Creek in Canada, workers found the body of a baby mammoth in the permafrost that had died about 30,000 years ago. This is the best-preserved body of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) ever found in North America. The find was made in the traditional territory […]