Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, ...

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

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

A strategic location made Lemnos an Allied stronghold during the First World War, now the island majors on good food and a ...

Once the heart of a vast empire and now a crossroads between East and West, Hungary stands as a testament to Europe’s layered ...

She wrote her first novel, 'Caravan for Crows', at the age of 23, when the pandemic forced her to close her gastronomic business and return to her parents' home. Now, her literature can be read in ...

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 ...

Even from the air they looked like ramparts between fortress Europe and the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire. (If you have any doubts about Turkey’s emergence as a regional superpower, visit the ...

Across the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, intellectuals were creating a modern public sphere: a vibrant periodical press, a series of cultural associations and new-style schools. Adherents of ...

While Jews were being exiled from numerous localities in Christian Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, including from Austria in 1420, Bavaria in 1442, Spain in 1492, Portugal in 1496, Naples ...

European powers intervened to prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, negotiating a settlement that guaranteed Mohammad Ali’s family heredity rule in Egypt, an agreement that lasted until ...