Eastern Europe category: 1864 books

Bulgaria is a small country and often its treasures are neglected because of larger and more popular tourism destinations. But once travelers set foot onto this beautiful land, they will be amazed with the thousands of years of history, cultural diversity, warm people, well-established and preserved...

Romania is one of the most beautiful countries in southeastern Europe and an emerging tourist destination with beautiful villages, well-preserved medieval castles and luxurious Black Sea resorts. The World Travel and Tourism Council recently ranked Romania as the fourth-fastest growing tourist destination....

The interest in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 has exceeded the expectations of the publishers of this volume. The first edition, which was published five months ago, is already exhausted and a second is now called for. Meanwhile there has broken out and is now in progress a war which is generally regarded...

La Pologne est le plus important des dix États entrés dans l'Union européenne en mai 2004. Après quarante-cinq années passées sous domination soviétique, les nouveaux dirigeants du pays ont tous présenté cette adhésion comme un « retour » à l'Europe, une « réunification ». C'est dire combien la …

Découvrez Bucarest, la capitale de la Roumanie, et ses alentours riches en culture, histoire, avec un patrimoine architectural exceptionnel! Vous aimez chercher derrière les stéréotypes? Alors, bienvenue à Bucarest, la capitale de la Roumanie. Marquée par endroits des aberrations...

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar...

L’auteur nous présente ici le cœur d’un empire alors au faîte de sa puissance : l’Autriche. La Vienne de Tissot, avec Paris et Berlin, donnait le ton à l’Europe entière. Aiguillonné par son insatiable curiosité, il veut tout voir, tout comprendre, il visite tout, entre partout, rencontre...

The Western Ukraine is very popular for the “green” tourism: its medium-range mountains with flat peaks and wood-covered slopes, amazing landscapes, healing air, favourable climate, unique mineral springs make this region one of the healthiest and beautiful places in Ukraine.  The Carpathians...

“ Aux confins de l’Europe végète, asservie et malheureuse, une nation à peine connue de nom aujourd’hui, et digne cependant de tout notre intérêt. Cette nation est celle des Bulgares ; elle a conservé dans le plus dur esclavage ses vieilles mœurs, sa foi vive, son noble caractère, et,...

Vacances insolites : Road-Trip en Europe du Sud En 15 jours, de Nice à Toulon, vous avalerez les 2500 km de ce périple sans vous en rendre compte ! Du nord de l’Italie, rejoignez rapidement la partie sud-occidentale de la Croatie. Après de somptueux paysages,...

The fantastic beauty of the Carpathian mountains inspire travellers from all over the world. The Carpathians have preserved primeval forests, unique for the Central Europe. Their mountains are mild, free from rocky edges, with the infinite woodless areas called polonynas.  The Western Ukraine...

The Iron Curtain did not exist—at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries....

Slovenia is a diverse and varied country, with some of Europe's most pristine and dramatic landscapes. From its friendly capital city, Ljubljana, to its snowcapped mountains, azure lakes, dense forests and fragment of jagged coastline, Slovenia has much to offer. The new edition of Insight Pocket...