Greek rebels led by Mavrovouniotis landed in Beirut, 1826, to free Syria from Ottomans but failed. Local resistance and ...

MailOnline Travel's Ailbhe MacMahon experienced EasyJet Holidays' new package trip to the Tunisian island of Djerba. The ...

Cutthroat Island’ was meant to be an innovative adventure story led by a female star. However, an unrestrained producer and a series of misfortunes transformed it into one of the biggest flops of the ...

The 16th-century Ottoman ruler Sultan Suleyman liked to impose himself on foreign monarchs from the start, always beginning ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the ...

The victory of the Knights of St John over the Ottomans is one of the most celebrated ... waiting for her husband to return from fighting pirates in the Philippines. Fortunately, as her confessor ...

Sid Meier's Civilization 7 dataminers have discovered a fourth Age that could soon be added to the game The unannounced Atomic Age would join Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern Firaxis has teased ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

He portrayed an Ottoman warrior in the latter, which helped him hone the horse-riding and combat skills he would also need for Sandokan. But to play the pirate, he still had to undergo an intense ...

Henry VIII is recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury. 1702: Queen Anne ...

He places the 1565 siege in the wider context of the great-power rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs along with their proxies, the Mediterranean corsairs. The sultan’s state-sponsored ...