At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...

For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...

Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...

Nehru’s fondness for Muslim empires also leads him down some of the darkest alleys of history. For about 600 years, the ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

At the start of the traditional distillation process — which has been repeated for centuries — the petals are set in mud ...

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

A castle in Romania survived multiple empires, and its history involves a dark past, a legend of forbidden love and an heir ...

Kurdish leaders on Thursday congratulated the 240th anniversary of the founding of Sulaimani city, the Kurdistan Region’s ...