Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

Soon, the Ottoman Empire issued four decrees, one after the other, demanding Gulbadan Begum to depart from Arabia. But the courageous princess flouted each one, as she continued to freely roam ...

The truth behind the newly-revamped Pakistan-Turkey relations lies in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream of re-establishing a modern version of the Ottoman Empire, and expanding Ankara ...

The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The ...

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 ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

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.

TEHRAN – Arrays of historical elements, estimated to date from the Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi eras, have recently been unearthed at the Dolatkhaneh of Qazvin, which was once a royal complex in the ...

The Ottoman Empire, which gained prominence and world power in the 14th and 15th centuries and on, had a significant effect on the Jews of the era, and for many centuries served as a relative safe ...

After WWI, the Ottomans lost most of their empire and in 1924, the caliphate, the last remnant of Ottoman vestige, ceased to exist. Turkey would henceforth be a republic. Early life and personality ...