How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

Not to mention the Romans or the Greeks. But one empire that sometimes gets forgotten, outside Turkey, is the Ottoman. On the 100th anniversary of its end on November 1 1922, we look at five ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

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 ...

Northwestern Lacrosse defeated Penn 17-12 Thursday afternoon at Martin Stadium to advance to the NCAA semifinals next week. The team’s success was spearheaded by junior... Lacrosse: Taylor ...

They call him an Islamist because he focused his efforts on creating a pan-Islamic identity across the Ottoman Empire instead of one rooted in Turkish identity. But despite these criticisms ...

In this episode of our animated historical documentary series, we explore the causes behind the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Why did Arab leaders, once part of the ...

(Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) Review by Vanessa H. Larson A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been ...

Deeming the autonomy of Turkey essential to the safety of her Indian Empire, England has not hesitated to wage war in defence of Ottoman independence, and to procure loan after loan for the ...

“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. It’s an import ...