It ruled all or part of at least 37 countries and left a lasting cultural impact on each one. 24/7 Wall St. Insights The Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans, the Mediterranean coast of Africa, and ...

Cut off from once-mighty Ottoman rulers, Bosnian Muslims had to go it ... But along the way, as the Cold War thawed out, frozen conflicts in former Ottoman zones, such as the Middle East and ...

Many have been extensively studied, but not the Ottoman Turkish documents, products of an occupying bureaucracy that ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century — well before the Byzantine ...

For centuries, it has been the Zayd branch that ruled over Mecca, but in the 1830s a former Ottoman vassal and ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, went to war against the Sultan, installing his ...

In Ottoman history, Sultan Ibrahim I is known as one of the most extravagant rulers. Though he only ruled for a period of roughly eight years, his reign was defined by decadence, nepotism ...

At first glance, the artwork looks like a classic Ottoman miniature. But up close, scenes pulled from present-day movies, internet memes and pop culture come alive. Thirty-five-year-old Murat ...

Alone, they prepared their families for the waves of deportations which the Ottoman rulers ordered over the summer of 1915. Nearly a million women, children, ...

Nikopoulos said that one of the first actions of Murad II, the Ottoman ruler who conquered Thessaloniki — the closest city to Mount Athos — was to draw up a legal document in 1430 protecting ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great ...