Durru Shehvar Sultan, daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph, grew up in France before marrying the eldest son of India’s ...

The timing of Caroline Finkel’s splendidly written Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire reflects the buoyant state of Ottoman scholarship. Neglected archives have been triumphantly mined by ...

Explore the final years of the Ottoman Empire as it crumbled from internal decay, foreign occupation, and nationalist ...

Step into the harsh realities of life in the Ottoman Empire, where power, punishment, and politics shaped a brutal existence for many. From extreme laws to ruthless royal customs, these five facts ...

Suleiman regarded as the magnificent by the Turkish, who destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary in 1526, died in Hungary.

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

However, as Cagaptay observes, this contrasts with the Ottoman period when Moscow famously described the Ottoman Empire as the ‘sick man of Europe’ which it wanted to disembody. Cagaptay is also ...

The series will focus on the life of Osman Bey, the son of Ertugrul Gazi and the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Creator Mehmet Bozdag Stars Burak Özçivit ... pioneer). In a world of men, she rules of ...