In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...
After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...
Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...
In the final leg of her epic journey, Alice Roberts takes the train to the western point of the Ottoman Empire, Budapest. She learns how the mighty empire came close to conquering most of Europe ...
This talk examines the social history of oriental carpets, particularly the production and circulation of carpets by Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. It discusses the central role of mass ...
‘The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy’ and ‘The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire’ expand on histories too often dismissed as mere footnotes A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a ...
The event included a scientific workshop and a round table dedicated to the study of new archival documents and artifacts reflecting the foreign policy relations of the Kazakh Khanate of the XV-XVII ...
Prof. Cornell H. Fleischer, a world-renowned expert of Ottoman history and scholar of the greater Islamic world, passed away in Chicago on April 21. He was 72. Known for his prowess with languages and ...
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 ...
The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...
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