Germany, one of the most historically and geographically diverse countries in Europe, is best understood through its maps.

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

When Boris Johnson declared that attempts at European unity had failed, he should have looked at the father of modern Europe, the German king Charlemagne, whose Holy Roman Empire lasted for over ...

Modern Romania was also divvied up until 1918, when the northern regions belonging to the Austro-Hungarian empire were united with the south, which was ruled by the Ottoman empire until 1878.