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 ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Ottoman Empire, continues with a video ...

Kings and Generals' animated series on Ottoman history returns with a fascinating question - why did the powerful Ottoman Empire never set sail for the Americas during the age of colonization? This ...

Tourists exploring the ancient Roman aqueduct in İznik, Bursa, recently made an unexpected discovery: an Ottoman Period tombstone integrated into the aqueduct's construction. The tombstone was ...

Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...

The princess was exiled from Istanbul with the rest of the Ottoman imperial family after the empire fell and the caliphate was abolished by the fledgling Republic of Turkey in 1924. Mourad’s ...

The Wahabi kingdom destroyed the tombs after it took over the custody of Islam's holy cities, Mecca and Medina, and the shrines, from the defeated Ottoman Empire. Shia Muslims across the country ...

From Africa to the Far East, back to the Middle East and even in the less sophisticated parts of Europe such as the Russian empire, not forgetting the Ottoman Empire which at that time was audibly ...

How did Muhammad Ali Jinnah go from being a secular young man appalled by Indian interference in the Ottoman Caliphate crisis ... is my new book, East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World ...

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered a halt to construction on Equinor's Empire Wind project off the coast of New York, saying information suggested the Biden administration approved it ...

Baklava’s been around since the Ottoman Empire, making the Turkish dessert one of the world’s oldest. Phyllo dough isn’t usually too difficult to find, making this a bit of a breeze.

Going further back, the Ottoman Empire also breaks the borders. Suddenly, we have a lot of Mediterranean dishes, similar to Moldova and parts of Romania. In more southern parts of Eastern Europe ...