Konya as a Turkish city with a history stretching back to the early Seljuk era has a wide variety of striking minaret styles, ...

Located in a Serb minority enclave on the outskirts of the Kosovo capital Pristina, the establishment is just a stone's throw ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

The Svrzo House, located in the heart of Sarajevo’s old quarter, is one of the most beautiful vestiges of Ottoman architecture in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kings and Generals remakes its animated documentary on the Ottoman Empire's rise, covering key battles like Bapheus, Kosovo, ...

The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and ...

During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...

During the holy month of Ramadan, mosques in Kosovo achieve significant milestones in teaching the Quran to children.

I wrote a column on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. At a talk I gave in January on this subject for the Siegal ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

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

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...