The Ottoman Empire once ruled vast territories across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Europe, shaping world history in profound ways. From their control over the spice trade, which ...

Although Türkiye is geographically distant from South Asia, it has a history of involvement in the region because of religion ...

Thus ended the story of Bonneval Ahmed Pasha: once a promising but typical French nobleman, he became an Ottoman pasha. It is ...

Seeking to reclaim lost influence, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I only to face devastating defeats from the Caucasus ...

For travelers who have marveled at Istanbul and seek a deeper, richer, and more intimate Turkish experience, the city of ...

While we often think directly to the British Empire when we reflect on imperialist looting, other empires made noteworthy seizures of culturally significant art and artifacts too. Albeit lesser in ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922. That ...

The cities might not seem similar today, but one thing Tripoli and Thessaloniki, Basra and Beirut, Sarajevo and Sana'a all once had in common is that just a little over a century ago they were all ...

In the early 20th century, another New York mogul eyed control of the area for U.S. and other foreign interests ...