The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and ...

Constantinople, originally founded as Byzantium by the ancient Greeks in 657 BCE, became the capital of the Byzantine Empire in 330 CE under the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. In 1453, it was ...

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever-changing By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

This animated documentary series traces the dramatic rise of the Ottoman Empire, from its origins as a small Turkic beylik to its conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Covering major battles like ...

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest ...

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 ...

It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it conquered Constantinople in 1453. It ruled all or part of at least 37 countries and left a lasting cultural impact on ...

European powers intervened to prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, negotiating a settlement that guaranteed Mohammad Ali’s family heredity rule in Egypt, an agreement that lasted until ...

They resisted an Ottoman naval attack in 1442, and when Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, ending the Eastern Roman Empire, Trebizond sought help from France, which ignored them ...