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Janissary (Elite Ottoman Infantry Unit)
At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...
World out of order, on the cusp of catastrophe
Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...
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Turkey scrubs up its baths to keep hammam tradition alive
For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running ...
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Turkestan or Iranzamin: the clash over the cultural roots of Central Asia
Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...
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Albania’s Muslim Vatican will show Islam isn’t monolithic. An inspiration for other religions
Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...
The salty pleasures of the doorstopper history of an ocean
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 ...
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The Last World War Veterans Are Dying. Cue New Heights of Remembrance Hysteria
Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look ...