Hammams—the public baths that have been an integral part of Istanbul life for centuries—can be found everywhere from the city's quiet historic neighborhoods to inside the best hotels in Turkey, and ...

The major cities of Central Europe built along the Danube were the focus of key battles in the war between Muslims and ...

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

Suleiman I, the most dazzling of the Ottoman sultans, illuminated the 16th century, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He was the ...

AT PENPOINTThe visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Pakistan was not just friendly and fraternal, but it ...

Experience the rejuvenating effects of a Turkish hammam, where centuries of tradition meet modern relaxation and cleansing.

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

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The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships took to the seas, two ...

The diamond was formerly owned by an Ottoman sultan and, according to legend, was kept as the eye of a secret idol in the ...

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 ...

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 ...