A new show illuminates the rich artistic wonders that arose out of the 400 years of commerce between the Republic of Venice ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

An Osaka Metropolitan University historian has found that the Ottoman Empire’s seeming religious tolerance stemmed from ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

His father was Beyazid II and mother was Gulbahar Hatun. He was ascended to throne in 1512 and ruled the Ottoman Empire for 8 years until 1520. Yavuz Sultan Selim was one of the Empire's most ...

To halt their progress, Ezio travels to Constantinople where he allies with the Ottoman Assassins against the local Byzantine Templars. His efforts disrupt the Templars' goal to re-establish the ...

Ezio travels to Constantinople where he allies with the Ottoman Assassins against the local Byzantine Templars. His efforts disrupt the Templars' goal to re-establish the Byzantine Empire and ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, an Armenian-American lawyer whose great-grandfather served as an officer and chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, has obtained Turkish citizenship, adopting the name "Murat." ...

The firm owned 61,228 shares of the company’s stock after selling 1,512 shares during the period. Rhumbline Advisers’ holdings in Varex Imaging were worth $893,000 at the end of the most ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...