"Koestenbaum is an avowedly excitable guide to the subject and sometimes strains historical affinities between his own minor embarrassments - ..."

Something like 20 countries with whom we have historical and cultural affinities became independent states.

What Happens There Affects Us' Syrian officials insist their ties with Lebanon are a matter of national security and historical affinity.

The design is particularly inane when you recall that this sculpture shares an obvious historical affinity with the show's tectonic theme.

Due to the historical affinity between Bavaria and Greece-Prince Otto I was from 1832 to 1862 the first King of Greece-many Greek artists were trained in Munich.

I couldn't respond to this city as I had to the sparkling Constantinople of Justinian or Alexius, but that was a personal matter having to do with ancestry, chemistry, and historical affinity.

While few people nowadays would admit to having an openly hostile, Cold War attitude towards Russia, for many Britons there is a natural cultural and historical affinity with the US.

But historical affinities and animosities also played a part, as with the Chalca cities.

Ladies and gentlemen, honourable Members, there is on our continent a historical mental affinity, a feeling of togetherness which makes us Europeans.

In a later interview she expressed her feelings about Russia, stating there was a: "...spiritual and historical affinity between Russia and Ukraine.