"Ottoman was the official language of state," he told The Associated Press from the library of the Pantokrator Monastery, one of 20 on the heavily wooded peninsula. Crime In The City ...

Do high school students in the United States learn about the Armenian Genocide?” This is a surprisingly difficult question to ...

Most Americans don’t know that their morning cup of coffee connects them to the Ottoman Empire. Few are aware that this bygone Muslim state helped to birth Protestantism, America’s dominant ...

Abdulhamid II oversaw efforts to modernize and westernize the Ottoman state, while exerting autocratic control over his subjects. Sultan Abdulhamid II, probably at Balmoral Castle in 1867.

At the height of the Ottoman Empire the Sultan-Caliph ruled over one-third of Europe and as late as 1683 Ottoman armies were knocking at the gates of Vienna. ... Michigan State University, ...

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler .

While doing research for his first book “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky visited more than ...

The Ottoman documents include details about land in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he explained. “We are proud of this treasure,” Rifai said, adding that his center has received the ...

So, the Ottoman Empire entered the 20th century as a backward dictatorial state, which organized mass slaughters of the nations inhabiting the Empire. The crisis, which involved the political, ...

Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather after a training session at a firing range in northern Syria on May 21. (Robert Burns/Associated Press) A tour of the war zones in Iraq and Syria ...