If you search the shelves of your favorite grocery store, you will see coffee originating from all manner of places around ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...

Matthew Stevenson is the author of many books, including Reading the Rails, Appalachia Spring, and The Revolution as a Dinner Party, about China throughout its turbulent twentieth century.

EDIRNE, Turkey -- On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ...

History's lesson is clear: greatness is not a birthright. It is a wager on the future. And it demands the courage to build.

Raleigh, N.C. “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. It ...

A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke during a rally in Istanbul over the weekend in which he lamented the loss of the Ottoman Empire, a report says.

During the 16th century, the idea of the caliphate was radically reimagined by Sufi orders close to the Ottoman dynasty.

T he Armenian genocide was the mass murder of up to one million Armenians during the First World War. Sometimes called the ...