Mehmed II, known as "The Conqueror," transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant Muslim superpower through military genius, administrative reform, and the monumental conquest of Constantinople.

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 Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. ... The last sultan was soon spirited away on a ... the build-up to that furtive exit by Mehmed VI, who was also caliph, or ...

ISTANBUL. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who was commemorated on the 542nd anniversary of his passing on Wednesday, is among the greatest leaders of history as a military genius, great ...

Mehmed VI was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918 to 1922. He succeeded his brother, Mehmed V, who died four months before the end of World War I.

This rich collection, about to be auctioned at London's Christie's, establishes the history of reliance between the Ottoman and Venetian sea-based empires ...

They resisted an Ottoman naval attack in 1442, and when Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, ending the Eastern Roman Empire, Trebizond sought help from France, which ignored them ...

Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) ... Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, ... The Emperor, Sultan Mehmet VI, abdicated and the Republic of Turkey was created.

Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) ... Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. ... The Emperor, Sultan Mehmet VI, ...