The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

In 1912, the nations of the Balkans joined together to kick the Ottoman Empire out of Europe, end its influence in their countries and free the people living in those territories from Ottoman rule.

This recipe is from the 19th century, though Ottoman soldiers had been making warrior’s halva since at least the 15th century, and likely for quite a while before that. They would make and eat ...

On the Ottoman side, nearly 87,000 soldiers are thought to have died. As a result of the role he played in spearheading the failed offensive, Churchill was demoted. Image source, ALAMY.

In 1824, the island of Psara faced a brutal invasion by Ottoman forces. The islanders, known as Psariots, mounted a fierce ...

At bitter-cold Sarikamish, in late 1914-early 1915, Enver was thankful to Ottoman Armenian soldiers who gave their lives in vain to battle Russia.

Armenians have for years charged that Turkish soldiers slaughtered 1.5 million men, women and children gathered in churches and along roads as they fled across eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1923.

Constantinople lost some 83 percent of its European territory, and more than 120,000 Ottoman soldiers fell in battle or died from disease. A photo titled "Bidding Adieu To A Fallen Comrade." ...

In “El Turco,” which is produced by Turkey’s Ay Yapim, Yaman plays 17th Ottoman soldier Hasan Balaban, who was wounded during the Turkish army’s campaign to conquer Vienna in 1683 and ...

Niehoff-Panagiotidis, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, said the oldest of the roughly 25,000 Ottoman works found in the monastic libraries dates to 1374, or 1371.