Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for ... Then in 1922, the Ottoman Empire itself ceased to exist. The Emperor, Sultan Mehmet VI, abdicated and the Republic of Turkey ...

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 ...