At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed ...

The pasha emerges as a rare Ottoman intellectual and statesman who sought to preserve the empire through order, merit and a ...

"Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art From the Khalili Collection," opening today at the Asian Art Museum, brings attention to a diverse multicultural civilization that produced its fair share of ...

Tuesday marks the 697th anniversary of the death of Osman Ghazi, the founder and first ruler of the Ottoman Empire, which would eventually grow into a vast and influential world power. Osman I, also ...

The Ottoman Empire begins the grand campaign with the largest number of holdings of any empire. Unfortunately these holdings will quickly and continuously come under attack from your neighbors due to ...

This epic account of Ottoman decline and the birth of modern Turkey is a tour de force of accessible scholarship By the end of 1918, after four increasingly grim years of warfare, revolution was in ...

WHEN a Serb gunman shot an Austrian archduke in the summer of 1914, the nations of Europe tumbled into war with all the grace of bowling pins. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, whose ally Russia ...