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The Croatian language developed in the centuries following the great migration into Slavonia and Dalmatia. In order to convert the Slavs to Christianity, Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius learned the language and Cyril put it into writing. This...

Sweden led the way in the silent-film era of the 1920s, with such masterpieces as Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage), adapted from a novel by Selma Lagerlöf and directed by Mauritz Stiller. In 1967 came Vilgot Sjöman’s notorious I Am Curious (Yellow),...

For many centuries, continental Europe – especially the Netherlands, Spain, France and Italy – set the artistic agenda. The first artist with a truly British style and sensibility was arguably William Hogarth, whose riotous canvases exposed the vice...

England has been putting the world through its musical paces ever since some mop-haired lads from Liverpool created The Beatles. And while Elvis may have invented rock ‘n’ roll, it was the Fab Four that transformed it into a global phenomenon, backed...