The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) was one of the longest lasting and most territorially extensive of all empires in history. Yet today few know about its nature, whether in Turkey or abroad. Who were the ...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire the Kurdish population of northern ... The Kurds' situation worsened when neighbouring Turkey closed its borders to refugees. During the 1990s the PUK and ...

But those who moved to New York at the height of its famous period of immigration also included Arabs from the Ottoman Empire who set up their own Arabic-language shops, mosques and churches in ...

Since ancient times, modern-day Turkey as been a pivotal European conduit to Asia, a role it plays as much today as it did ...

He was also briefly the ruler of one of the world's great powers - the Timurid Empire - that at its height ruled not only ... five to six hundred years ago - Ottoman Turkey, Ming China and the ...

The Munich-based production and distribution powerhouse will be selling its anticipated 10-part historical drama series as ...

Her book radically transforms our understanding of Ottoman architecture by exposing the diverse and fluid nature of its formative period. It also provides the reader with an understanding of design, ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century. Alice Roberts ...

Ari Şekeryan takes a hard look at the fraught fate of the surviving Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. The author demonstrates the strategic adaptability of a vulnerable ...

The Netherlands is a small European country with an undeniable reputation. From its charming canals to its flower fields and ...