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Explore the final years of the Ottoman Empire as it crumbled from internal decay, foreign occupation, and nationalist ...
Step into the harsh realities of life in the Ottoman Empire, where power, punishment, and politics shaped a brutal existence for many. From extreme laws to ruthless royal customs, these five facts ...
Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.
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 ...
Want to play Dungeons and Dragons in a fantasy Dune-like setting and either work to save a falling Empire or wander the ...
Last week, the Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP) within The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA launched a ...
The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The ...
“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import ...
The Eastern Express train that connects Ankara, the capital of Turkey, with Kars, near the Georgian border. Erzurum and Kars figured in most wars between the Ottoman and Russian empires, and both ...
The Ottoman Empire's seeming tolerance of non-Muslim religions was part of a way to manage communities that drew the empire's suspicions, according to an Osaka Metropolitan University historian.
The Ottoman Empire, which gained prominence and world power in the 14th and 15th centuries and on, had a significant effect on the Jews of the era, and for many centuries served as a relative safe ...
The abandoned ghost village of Levissi (known today as Kayaköy) was once an area bustling with Greeks on the slopes of a hill ...