In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of Genghis Khan’s sons and opened its gates in the hopes of experiencing mercy.
Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace was the seat of power for the Ottoman Empire for nearly 400 years. A vast 700,000-square-meter ...
Many Ottomans who migrated from the Ottoman Empire to Latin American countries in the 19th century in search of a better life and were described as "Los Turcos" (Turkish people) have achieved ...
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Twelve wars that ended the Ottoman Empire’s power
The Ottoman and Russian empires fought 12 wars over four centuries, and each one shifted the balance of power. What began as ...
The Israeli government has unanimously approved a proposal to recognize the mass killing of Armenian Christians by the ...
In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...
The Ottoman Empire pursued social equilibrium while the West pursued capital accumulation, a divergence that continues to ...
Last week, we learned from US Vice President JD Vance that the Trump Administration considers Turkey eligible to receive F-35 ...
What should be the Jewish share of the Ottoman Empire? Does that seem like rather a strange question? Maybe that’s just because it hasn’t been asked before. When the Ottoman Empire crumbled the land ...
Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci’s interaction with the Ottomans is memorialised in his designs for a ...
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