Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...

A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk. Before being pitted against each other in WWI, bad blood between Russia and Turkey dated back to the 16th century. This illustration portrays the ...

(Source: The National Army Museum.) The Ottoman Army included soldiers from all the territories under Ottoman control. Although most of the soldiers were Turkish and Muslim, there was a ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later by 5,000 corsairs (North African privateers). Defending the island were ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

TASS/. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia traveled to Bulgaria where he took part in the events dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in ...