At the outbreak of the Great War, the Ottoman Empire entered the conflict exhausted, indebted, and politically isolated, with ...

Skanderbeg was raised and trained by the Ottoman Empire as one of its most trusted commanders. For years, he fought loyally ...

The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height ...

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923) brings ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

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

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 ...

During World War I, the Ottoman decision to deport Armenians out of the war zone in eastern Anatolia set in motion a massacre that produced casualties probably numbering well over a million. As much ...

The Ottoman Empire begins the grand campaign with the largest number of holdings of any empire. Unfortunately these holdings will quickly and continuously come under attack from your neighbors due to ...