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 ...

The truth behind the newly-revamped Pakistan-Turkey relations lies in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream of re-establishing a modern version of the Ottoman Empire, and expanding Ankara ...

A detailed look back at how the Chiefs went from being a ragtag gang of lovable losers to a dominant and dreaded cultural phenomenon.

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 Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

The Ottoman Caliph tried to resurrect the empire through reforms and iron fisted rule but was eventually overthrown marking the beginning of the end for his dynasty ...

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 ...

Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good As a historian of the Ottoman Empire, I believe it is criminal to keep millions of people disconnected from their own recent past.

His critics have likened him to a modern-day Ottoman sultan. Makings of Erdoganism So, why did he win? Erdogan remains popular in Turkiye's rural areas and among Turkish neo-middle classes.