Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

Prof. Cornell H. Fleischer, a world-renowned expert of Ottoman history and scholar of the greater Islamic world, passed away in Chicago on April 21. He was 72. Known for his prowess with languages and ...

Ortaylı left behind a legacy of popularizing Ottoman history in Turkey through his decades of media appearances and over 40 published books.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Suleyman the Magnificent had his hand on Christendom’s throat. He could paralyze all of Europe’s trade at the drop of a Turkish turban and had more Christian subjects massed under his rule than any ...

“In the Kızlan Ottoman Wreck Underwater Excavation, weapons, porcelain, chess sets, and unique findings illuminating history have recently been uncovered,” said Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister ...

Ottoman trailblazer Mihri Müşfik Hanım defied social limits to become one of Türkiye’s first women painters and a pioneer who opened art education ...

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...