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 suspicions of non-Muslim ...

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 struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

Video clips surfaced showing Jableh city as a deserted wasteland, just as a foreign jihadist had boasted on social media ...

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The Ottoman Empire is one of the most important and ... to the empire's elite and unique military units known as the Janissaries. Calls Mount Against Stephen Curry as Warriors Star Faces MSG ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

The Ottoman military, once a dominant force, lagged behind European advancements. The Janissaries, an elite corps, resisted modernisation, and their eventual abolition in 1826 (the “Auspicious ...