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 ...

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However, the doner’s evolution stretches back nearly as far as the Ottoman Empire ... but in the 19th century, kebab restaurants in Istanbul started to use vertical spits, probably as ...

The lucrative trade was dominated by Ottoman merchants who controlled trade ... envisaged “an unending map, forever scrolling up over further horizon”, with a cartographic revolution ...

Within the Ottoman empire, divisions between the two communities also hardened as a result of the Tanzimat, a series of 19th-century reforms, which unintentionally spawned new modes of allegiance ...

Modern European empires idealised clear, policeable borders, traceable on a map – indeed ... We can consider the post-19th-century Ottoman empire among the group of European empires that ...

British troops took control of the territory from the Ottoman Empire at the end of October ... which emerged as a political ideology in the late 19th century, called for the creation of a Jewish ...