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The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, both fought on 14 October 1806, marked a major turning point in the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It saw the French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) soundly defeat the Prussian...

An oil-on-canvas c. 1680 portrait of John III Sobieski (aka Jan Sobieski, reign 1674-96), ruler of Poland-Lithuania. The artist is disputed but may be Daniel Schultz or Andreas Stech. (National Museum, Warsaw)

Baranów Sandomierski Castle, Poland, built in the 1590s.

A 1641 illustration of the Polish Sejm or Parliament (National Library of Poland).

Metsamor, which is located 32 km (20 mi) west of Yerevan, Armenia is one of the most interesting archaeological sites in the Caucasus. While first settled and founded as a Bronze Age city, people continuously inhabited Metsamor through Urartian...

The Three Kingdoms Period of ancient Korea (57 BCE – 668 CE) is so-called because it was dominated by the three kingdoms of Baekje (Paekche), Goguryeo (Koguryo), and Silla. There was also, though, a fourth entity, the Gaya (Kaya) confederation...

The architecture of the 80,000 Shinto shrines in Japan varies depending on geographical location, the deity worshipped, and the date of foundation. The earlier Shinto shrines tend to be simpler and less decorative affairs than those which...

The Peace of Westphalia (1648), concluded through treaties signed at Osnabrück and Münster (May-October 1648), marked the end of two major conflicts: the Thirty Years’ War and the Eighty Years’ War. What began as a religious and dynastic...

A 1778 oil-on-canvas painting, Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, by Bernardo Bellotto. (Royal Castle, Warsaw)

Polonia 1863 (Poland Enchained), oil on canvas painting by Jan Matejko, 1864. Depicted in Matejko's allegorical artwork is the ill-fated January Uprising of 1863, with the central figure in black, a personification of Poland, resting her...