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

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

Following the Fall of Constantinople and the conquest of Trebizond and Morea, the Ottoman Empire faced fierce resistance in the Balkans. In 1462, Vlad Tepes of Wallachia defied Sultan Mehmed II with a ...

It confirms the defeat of Delhi’s Tughlaq dynasty ruler Firoz Shah Tughlak at the hands of Choda II, an ancestor of Choda III, the latter being a subordinate ruler under Eastern Ganga King ...

And from the Byzantine empire they supplanted, the Ottomans borrowed bureaucracy, culture, and claims to universal rule as the successors of Rome. Ottoman rulers did not only call themselves khans and ...

The Holy Roman Empire did so in a very literal way, so too did the Russian Empire ('tsar' comes from 'caesar'), and Ottoman sultans called themselves Kayser-i Rum ('Caesar of Rome') after taking ...

"When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman empire to align itself definitively with Sunni ...

Durru Shehvar Sultan, daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph, grew up in France before marrying the eldest son of India’s first billionaire. She became the daughter-in-law of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan ...

More fantastic beasts can be found in the exhibition's Ottoman Dynasty section, where a Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) ceramic jar showing a phoenix among clouds, from the Palace Museum, is placed next ...

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire were well-educated, worldly and pious, and many tried to change the lives of their people for the better.

Founded in 2005, the Osm@n brand has brought the Ottoman era and its sultans into contemporary fashion with a fresh and modern interpretation. The brand has consistently blended art, trends, history ...