"Ottoman was the official language of state," he told The Associated Press from the library of the Pantokrator Monastery, one of 20 on the heavily wooded peninsula. Crime In The City ...

Last week, the Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP) within The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA launched a ...

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler .

Gingeras, a historian of the Middle East who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat ...

While doing research for his first book “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky visited more than ...

Furthermore, because the Ottomans taxed many landed awqāf at a rate of 10 per cent, endowments made during Mamluk rule that were retained as such by the Ottoman state are also named in the ...

Ottoman cuisine, for example, is the basis for what is often referred to as a healthy Mediterranean diet, with names like yoghurt, baklava and kebab bearing witness to their Turkish origins.

Istanbul, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday inaugurated the first church built with government backing in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey's 100-year history as a post-Ottoman state.

Letter: The Ottoman State Archives in Istanbul offer a sizeable collection of documents for South African historians. The documents are not only written in Ottoman Turkish, but also in French ...