The Battle of Varna occurred on November 10, 1444, in the vicinity of Varna, situated in eastern Bulgaria. This pivotal clash ...

The next few decades saw many turbulent changes, among which a war with the Timurid Empire to the east, a civil war between Bayezid's sons (the Ottoman Interregnum) and several besiegements of the ...

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. That ...

1. The House of Osman -- 2. Mehmet the Conqueror -- 3. The House of Felicity -- 4. Suleyman the Magnificent -- 5. Sultanate of Women -- 6. An Organ for the Sultan -- 7. Regicide -- 8. The Procession ...