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 ...

The words below it are written in Turkish, and proclaim Suleiman's role as Sultan, ruler specifically of the Ottoman Empire, and sovereign of all its subjects - Muslim, Jewish or Christian.

At the start of the new year, on January 6, President Erdogan made clear his intention to streamline the production of the ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine ... More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories the Ottoman sultans once ruled.

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Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and visiting the many ... to conjure up images of the era of the Ottoman sultans’ reign. There are plenty of palaces and ...

At MBIFL 2025, historian Vikram Sampath and scholar S. Nagesh dissected the legacy of Tipu Sultan, sparking debates over his ...

While arranging the books in my father’s library, I came across a novel that I was gifted a long time back and totally forgot about. It was ...

The Eyüp Sultan Mosque is situated in the Eyüp district ... The city was the capital of the Ottoman Empire after Bursa but before Istanbul and as such, is packed with sites of historical ...

ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and ...