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 ...

France, Ferrara, and the Holy Roman Empire continued to wage war on Venice. This worried the pope and his allegiance began to shift. Venice had been a powerful buffer against Ottoman expansion to ...

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

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

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

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." ...

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

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.

The skyscraper will be lit up in gold and cyan to match the show's new logo. If you're looking at the New York City skyline on Friday night, you might wonder about the colors of the Empire State ...

And the subscriber cover presents the team in comic book form, illustrated exclusively for Empire by Mark Brooks.