The Carpathians stretch from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine and Romania in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some 1,500km long. Thorpe, a BBC journalist and filmmaker, follows ...

Carpathian Ruthenia (Subcarpathian Rus) was registered as an object of international law in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919. After the World War II, in 1945, it was abolished and ...