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 ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

The director of a Catholic aid organization that assists Eastern Christians warns of continued persecution against Armenians ...

Wes Anderson enlists a star-studded cast in ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ turbulent times call for a rural retreat in HBO’s ...

The Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent ... of the Young Turks” linger on in the memory from the final years of the Ottoman Empire, before its collapse in the ...

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Tucked away on a quiet block steps from the Hudson River, the three-story home built in 1845 spans nearly 3,700 square feet and retains many of its 19th-century details, including pumpkin pine ...

Researchers are trying to determine the identity of the shipwreck. 31,165 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,165 people played the daily Crossword ...

founded by Osman I in the 13th century, was a major part of the Sunni Islamic caliphate under the Ottoman dynasty in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled Egypt, Greece ...

In stark contrast, the earliest forms of hospitality in Ottoman-era Athens were humble and utilitarian ... Even with the dawn of independence in the 19th century, when Athens began to modernize, ...

Cork appears to be the only city in Europe giving serious consideration to housing its 21st-century library in a brewery extension built not long after the end of the 19th century. Having been in ...