Explore the disappearance of ancient powerful countries which were once powerful, mighty and stood strong in the annals of ...

Alexandra Gerasimova, curator of the exhibition, told mos.ru about how the Empress worked, spent her leisure time and what important reforms she adopted during her reign.

Until 1912-'13, when the changes in the map of the Balkans began, the Albanians served the empire, but after the creation of new situations in the region, the Albanians were forced to revive ...

The early Bronze Age saw the development of urban centers such as Enkomi, which became hubs of trade and metallurgy. The Minoans from Crete are believed to have established early trade links, followed ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

After years of warfare, as the Austrians pushed the Turks back to the Danube and Sava Rivers, Greek and Serbian merchants and settlers poured into the Austrian Empire, including to Vojvodina Province, ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

The Ottoman Empire was named for Osman I (1259–1326), a Turkish Muslim prince in Bithynia who conquered neighbouring regions once held by the Seljūq dynasty. Ottoman power began to decline in ...

Between 1516 and 1918 Damascus and Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets , were important to the empire for trade and security.

Lamenting that the Middle East’s borders were defined after World War I and the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Erdogan asserted that Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, and Raqqa could have been “part ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires.

The orchestrated campaign to retrieve the Ottoman Constitution and Parliament, suspended by the same despotic Sultan in 1878, was to set the empire on the right civilizational path.