Once rulers of three continents, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I already weakened and divided. This video explores how ...

The iconic Battle of Mohács was a watershed moment in Ottoman, Hungarian, and European history. I delved in Hungary's ...

The Ottomans ruled over three continents and seven seas for six centuries. The century-long collapse of the Ottoman Empire created a whole new world along with many political, religious and ethnic ...

Between the independence of Greece in 1830 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, the Ottoman Empire totally receded from Europe after five centuries of domination. In 1914, a weakened Ottoman Empire ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State is organizing a two-day international conference, titled “A New History-Writing ...

Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to as the ...

It almost goes without saying that any given cemetery contains a lot of history. That is most certainly true of Cincinnati’s Judah Touro Cemetery in Price Hill. But Judah Touro, unlike any other ...

The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...