The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...
Historian Raymond Ibrahim documents the mass murders, looting and other crimes committed by Seljuk Turks in Manzikert in ... the 11th to 14th centuries. The empire they established included ...
It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095 ...