Over the next few months, there is outstanding contemporary art in some of the country’s most romantic and imposing country ...

Through the story of a local Vlach priest, Vardar explores how everyday figures navigated a web of local tensions and international politics involving the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, and ...

This Mughal princess challenged Turkey all by herself, single-handedly shook the Ottoman Empire; she was Emperor Akbar’s… Gulbadan Begum is best known for penning the Humayun-Nama, an ...

At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and a large part of the Arabian Peninsula from 1517 to 1924.

On 30th March 1856, the Crimean War was formally brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. This formal recognition signed at the Congress of Paris came after Russia accepted a ...

The ruthless brutality of Vlad III of Walachia, forged by the 15th-century clash between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, would partly inspire Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel ...

When did Rome fall? 476 C.E. is commonly cited as the traditional end of the Western Roman Empire, but the actual collapse may have occurred decades later.

Irina Georgescu on Eastern Europe’s secret plant-based dishes - Often seen as a meat-lover’s haven, the Eastern European ...

From Persecution to Persistence ...

1877-1878 - Romania wins full independence from the Ottoman Empire by siding with Russia in the Russo-Turkish War. It also acquires a coastline on the Danube delta.

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 ...