The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople.

This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their ...

But more than half a millennium ago— on May 29, 1453 —it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that fell to Ottoman Turks.

Deeming the autonomy of Turkey essential to the safety of her Indian Empire, England has not hesitated to wage war in defence of Ottoman independence, and to procure loan after loan for the ...

Signed in 1920, after the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in World War I, the National Pact identified those parts of the empire that the government was prepared to fight for. Specifically, it claimed those ...

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451, just two years before the Ottoman capture of Constantinople, so he would’ve grown up hearing the stories and feeling the anxiety associated with this ...

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries. Rise of Empires: Ottoman The Conquest of ...

ANKARA Tuesday marks the 697th anniversary of the death of Osman Ghazi, the founder and first ruler of the Ottoman Empire, which would eventually grow into a vast and influential world power.