The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only ...

Almost 20 years ago, the Lebanese rose against Syria’s domination of their country, including an occupation force of roughly ...

The North Carolina Museum of Art focuses on the complex relationship between the two maritime empires, in an exhibition that ...

After solidifying political and social reforms, Atatürk shifted his focus to modernising Turkey’s economy. Initially ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a ...

21, he conquered Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and brought an end to the Eastern Roman Empire. Mehmed continued his conquests in Anatolia with ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

Ottoman Turkish sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481. At the age of 21 ...

The sound of Hagia Sophia was recreated recently by two scholars from California’s Stanford University by simply popping a ...