At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...

For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

During the operation, authorities confiscated 3,072 coins from the Ottoman Empire, 178 coins from the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) period, and various other historical objects. In addition, the police ...

Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...

Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...

As a nation with an intense agenda, Türkiye often has to address issues in a single year that European countries may take a ...

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

Nehru’s fondness for Muslim empires also leads him down some of the darkest alleys of history. For about 600 years, the ...

A castle in Romania survived multiple empires, and its history involves a dark past, a legend of forbidden love and an heir ...