UNESCO holds a symposium on Piri Reis, admiral of Ottoman Egyptian fleet and writer on the science of navigation produced the earliest world map in 1513 26.11.2013 - Update : 26.11.2013 ANKARA ...

The Ottoman Empire, which at the time this map was drawn included much of the Balkans and the Middle East, used a version of the Turkish language written in a slightly modified Arabic script.

Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to as ...

Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell. One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

Yiğit Akin is the author of [When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire]. He discussed his book, which looks at the impact of World War I on ordinary ...

And so, after being warmly welcomed by host Justin, who offered a beautiful pin to take home as a souvenir, we enjoyed an hour of cool quiet immersion into the Ottoman experience of about 1300-1922.