Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.

Yet all of us owe important parts of our culture and history to the most important empire in Middle Eastern history, the Ottoman Empire, and specifically to one sultan who lived half a millennium ago.

Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

Neslisah Sultan, last in line to the dynasty that once ruled the Ottoman empire, has died at the age of 91.Once known as Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire and Princess of Egypt, Sultan was ...

Osman Ertugrul Osmanoglu, 97, the eldest member of the former Ottoman dynasty, died of kidney failure Sept. 23 at a hospital in Istanbul. He was the last surviving grandson of an Ottoman sultan ...

ANKARA, Turkey - Neslisah Osmanoglu, an Ottoman princess who married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when both royal households were abolished, has died. She was 91.

The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by “compression of the testicles ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

The Huzur debates in the Ottoman Empire lasted for 165 years, and they contributed to an intellectually rich exchange before the eyes of the sultan in the month of Ramadan.

Istanbul: Neslisah Sultan, the oldest member of the dynasty that ruled the former Ottoman empire, has died at the age of 91, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.