O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you…” This verse, spoken by Moses to his people, recognises the land’s divine allocation to the Israelites. Surah Al-Isra (17:104) further ...

Although it often ranks number two as a city in Greece, Thessaloniki is number one in the country when it comes to Greek ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

The current crisis between Israel and Iran, as well as the involvement of the United States of America, has proved once more that in international power ...

To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its ...

It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it conquered Constantinople in 1453. It ruled all or part of at least 37 countries and left a lasting cultural impact on ...

Mongol expansion began in East and Central Asia. Following are the countries that were part of the empire arranged by region and the time period they were invaded or conquered. Note that sometimes ...

In 1516, the Ottoman sultan, Selim the Grim, defeated and incorporated the domains of the Egyptian Mamluks, to include Israel, into the now doubled in size Ottoman Empire.