“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina ... It’s also a story (covering art, diplomacy, fashion, food and commerce, from roughly 1400 to 1800) of East meets—and merges ...

But for nearly 500 years Istanbul was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, a colossus that stretched from the Arabian Gulf, across North Africa, and into Greece and Eastern Europe. And though the ...

The mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which began 100 years ago Friday, is said by some scholars and others to have been the first genocide of the 20th century, even though the ...

Known as one of history’s most powerful empires, the Ottoman Empire grew from a Turkish stronghold in Anatolia into a vast state that at its peak reached as far north as Vienna, Austria ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922 ... the past—even when so well-chronicled—provides food for thought but no clear answers. History has yet to end.

More than 2 million ethnic Armenians lived within the borders of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 20th century. Christians in a majority Muslim society, they were subject to waves of ...

Its onset in the late 16th century was particularly noticeable in Anatolia, a largely rural region that once formed the heartland of the Ottoman Empire and ... a critical food source for the ...