Find out the fascinating, yet often gruesome, history of this empire. The Ottoman principality was formed around 1300 CE by ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

T he Ottoman Empire arose in modern Turkey at the turn of the 14th century. It emerged from the unification of the old Seljuk Turkic states under the House of Osman (its namesake).