the nobility of Rome overthrew their monarchy and established a republic. From its very beginning the Roman Republic was a highly unified state, much more so than any of its Greek counterparts ...

The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ...

Members of Greece's former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country's republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy ...

The Greek monarchy was abolished by referendum in December 1974, when voters overwhelmingly backed a republican constitution, months after the fall of a seven-year military dictatorship.