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 ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman History and World Wars continues with a video on why the Arabs revolted against the Ottomans before and during the Great ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

Erzurum and Kars figured in most wars between the Ottoman and Russian empires, and both fortress cities were part of the end games of the 1854 Crimean War. Photo by Matthew Stevenson.

After WWI, the Ottomans lost most of their empire and in 1924, the caliphate, the last remnant of Ottoman vestige, ceased to exist. Turkey would henceforth be a republic. Early life and personality ...

The truth behind the newly-revamped Pakistan-Turkey relations lies in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream of re-establishing a modern version of the Ottoman Empire, and expanding Ankara ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires.

Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good. As a historian of the Ottoman Empire, I believe it is criminal to keep millions of people disconnected from their own recent past.

One hundred years on from the official end of their empire on 1 November 1922, it is time to look afresh at the Ottomans. Lasting over six centuries, from 1299 till 1922, spanning the three ...

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, $30 (400p) ISBN 9780593242797 ...

Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to… ...

The empire knows how to strike back and will readily betray its own justice system (most notably in the case of Assange), including the hallowed principles of free speech and the press, to do so.