The first mosque built from the ground up in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost a century ago by ...

The year 1683 marked one of the most dramatic and pivotal moments in European history – the Siege of Vienna. On July 14th, ...

The Ottoman Empire, one of history’s most powerful and longest-lasting empires, experienced a remarkable journey that spanned ...

The storied past of a bejeweled dagger long thought to have belonged Henry VIII is the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Whether true or a coincidence, it refers to a historical episode that took place four centuries earlier, on September 11, 1683, during the second siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire: the Battle of ...

Finkel, a long-time resident of Turkey and Ottoman scholar, relates a "new" narrative of empire that properly accounts for the richness and complexity of the Ottoman state over nearly seven centuries.

In this diligent and rather dry general history, Imber, a lecturer at the University of Manchester, charts the Ottoman Empire from its birth, circa 1300, through its zenith in the reign of ...

The Frist Art Museum to present Venice and the Ottoman Empire, an exhibition that explores the artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the ...

This book stands out prominently from the mass of ephemeral political writings on the Near East, for it is a serious scholarly study of one of the most important phases of European activity in the ...

This essay examines how administrative documents categorized the mamluks who served Ottoman governors of Tunis from the early 18th to the mid-19th century. The categorization of these state slaves-cum ...

Also on the way is the Europa Universalis 4 DLC King of Kings, an Immersion Pack that will add more historical flavor across the wider nations surrounding the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.