Chania is a breathtaking city on the island Crete, and a perfect vacation spot -- Chania has with something to offer any ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, an Armenian-American lawyer whose great-grandfather served as an officer and chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, has obtained Turkish citizenship, adopting the name "Murat." ...

The Ottoman Empire is one of the most important ... extends to the empire's elite and unique military units known as the Janissaries. Greenland lawmakers form a new government on the eve of ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

The Ottoman military, once a dominant force, lagged behind European advancements. The Janissaries, an elite corps, resisted modernisation, and their eventual abolition in 1826 (the “Auspicious ...

It’s hard to blame the Europeans. They have forgotten how it was only yesterday, as it were, that they were being hounded by the Barbary pirates, enslaved and turned into janissaries by the Turks. I ...