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Everything could be shared, except the name of God

Across the Balkan Peninsula, Muslims and Christians have prayed to the same figures under different names, drunk from the same healing springs, and gathered at the same shrines for centuries. What they shared was never theology. It was something older and more durable: hope.

July 31, 2026 - Tunacan Tuna

Even after the borders were marked, the songs remained

The Balkans is often thought of as an area marred by conflict and its legacy today. Despite this, a great number of cultural practices unite the varied peoples of the region. This is clear regarding many things that are part of everyday life.

June 5, 2026 - Tunacan Tuna

Into the wild: tales of foraging in Armenia

In Armenia, wild foraging sits at the intersection of survival, tradition and rediscovery. Once a quiet means of making ends meet, it now raises broader questions about people’s relationship with nature, knowledge and responsibility.

April 20, 2026 - Kushane՛ Chobanyan

The Lithuanian Song Festival: 100 years of tradition

Lithuania’s song festival, Dainų šventė, celebrated its 100th anniversary in July this year. It stands as Lithuania’s paramount cultural phenomenon, involving tens of thousands of Lithuanians and several diaspora choirs from around the world. Yet despite sharing similar festivals, the presence of choirs from the other Baltic countries is a rare sight to see.

An old woman blows kisses at the procession from her flat window. She is dressed in national costume and an array of amber beads. Among the crowds lining the streets, other elderly ladies in similar dress sit on benches, too frail to march the three kilometres from Vilnius’s Cathedral Square to Vingis Park, the festival grounds, but keen to be part of the Lithuanian Song Festival parade.

September 16, 2024 - Ottilie Tabberer

Georgia. The cradle of viticulture

Georgia has over 525 indigenous grape varieties, which is roughly 1/6th of the world’s total grape species. Approximately 40 varieties are officially grown for commercial viticulture production. While Georgian wine has been known locally for centuries, its global consumption is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Georgia lies in the oldest wine-producing region in the world, with Georgian viticulture tracing back to over 8,000 years of grape cultivation and winemaking. While excavating a Neolithic village just 50 kilometres south of Tbilisi in the south-eastern region called Kvemo Kartli, archaeologists found prehistoric winemaking artefacts, specifically, clay vessel pieces containing residues of the world's oldest wine dating back to the 6th millennium BC.

February 15, 2022 - Natalia Mosashvili

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