Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey dating to the fourth century, when Emperor ...

The book covers the entire span of the Gupta Empire, from its founding by Chandragupta I in 319 AD to its decline under Vishnugupta in 543 AD. It examines the evolution of the coins’ designs ...

Prologue: The ambiguous dream of Western civilization The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream ...

The small village of Rastoke in Croatia was once considered a 'no man's land' due to border disputes during the medieval era, ...

As a result of this prosperity, tulips, which were originally introduced to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire in the ...

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

Enigmatic and elliptical, The Height Of The Coconut Trees manages to find some resonance on an emotional level, even when its deliberately loose and time-shifting structure makes the story ...

The transfer of sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius has highlighted the sometimes complicated relationship of the UK with its vestigial imperial possessions, now known ...

The Roman Empire, at the height of its power, sought to secure its borders ... During the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, the Ottoman Empire expanded its reach while the territories under Byzantine ...

After World War I, the British took over Palestine, a region in the former Ottoman Empire where Russian Jews ... that they can find themselves within its traditions and laws.

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million Muslims from the Russian Empire’s Caucasus region sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire ... used migration policies to govern the Caucasus and its ...