Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace was the seat of power for the Ottoman Empire for nearly 400 years. A vast 700,000-square-meter ...

The Ottoman and Russian empires fought 12 wars over four centuries, and each one shifted the balance of power. What began as ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci’s interaction with the Ottomans is memorialised in his designs for a ...

In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...

While the Ottoman Empire is often remembered through the lens of its decline, far less attention is paid to the ideas and aspirations that survived within its ruins. In The Indian Caliphate: Exiled ...

Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 -- Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 -- Rustem Pasha ...

Part I. Tom Goodrich / William Griswold & Jean Griswold -- Thomas D. Goodrich: a bibliography -- Does the Qatar map of the Tigris and Euphrates belong to Evilya Çelebi? / Zekeriya Kurşun -- Note ...

What should be the Jewish share of the Ottoman Empire? Does that seem like rather a strange question? Maybe that’s just because it hasn’t been asked before. When the Ottoman Empire crumbled the land ...

The Ottoman empire dates from the late 13th century until 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor states in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East. The centre of the ...