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.

The Ottoman Empire dominated much of Europe, Asia, and Africa - but why did it never extend its reach to the Americas? In ...

GOD’S SHADOW Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World By Alan Mikhail. Coming down to Mexico’s Pacific shore one summer day in 1573, a merchant named Pero Ximénez ...

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 ...

This month, a troupe of 100 musicians, dancers, acrobats and robed actors is performing an Ottoman-style spectacle near Topkapi Palace, once home to the sultans. An exhibition of Ottoman poetry ...

Mikhail is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University. His new book is GOD’S SHADOW: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World ...

A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been relegated to the annals of history, with little ...