For travelers who have marveled at Istanbul and seek a deeper, richer, and more intimate Turkish experience, the city of ...

At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed among its neighbours. To its east lay the Timurid Empire. Sultan Bayezid ...

The next few decades saw many turbulent changes, among which a war with the Timurid Empire to the east, a civil war between Bayezid's sons (the Ottoman Interregnum) and several besiegements of the ...

Thus ended the story of Bonneval Ahmed Pasha: once a promising but typical French nobleman, he became an Ottoman pasha. It is ...

The Battle of Adrianople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 played a crucial yet overlooked role in Greece's fight for ...

While we often think directly to the British Empire when we reflect on imperialist looting, other empires made noteworthy seizures of culturally significant art and artifacts too. Albeit lesser in ...

Although Türkiye is geographically distant from South Asia, it has a history of involvement in the region because of religion ...

From the Middle Ages to the first decades of the 20th century, the vast Islamic state known as the Ottoman Empire held sway. It took root in what is present-day Turkey and grew to include various ...

WHEN a Serb gunman shot an Austrian archduke in the summer of 1914, the nations of Europe tumbled into war with all the grace of bowling pins. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, whose ally Russia ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922. That ...