Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

What is the significance of the Ottoman Empire for world history? In order to answer these questions we will study the following topics: three pillars of Ottoman inheritance: Byzantium, Islam, Mongols ...

Erdogan’s ambitions in Syria go beyond fighting ISIS. Is he laying the foundation for a modern Ottoman Empire?

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...

I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Dr. Hasmik Khalapyan’s The Armenian Women ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode ... 2015). Frank Jacob, "Gallipoli. The Rise of Mustafa Kemal, and the Martial Creation of the ...