What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

Following the Fall of Constantinople and the conquest of Trebizond and Morea, the Ottoman Empire faced fierce resistance in ...

Mehmed II, known as "The Conqueror," transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant Muslim superpower through military genius, administrative reform, and the monumental conquest of Constantinople.

The current crisis between Israel and Iran, as well as the involvement of the United States of America, has proved once more that in international power ...

Each claims exclusive truth, dismissing predecessors as flawed: Christianity supersedes Judaism via Jesus as the Messiah; ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Even Niall Ferguson, an apologist for the West’s colonial depredations, is forced to concede that the ‘decline of the West is ...

Forgotten items and silent documents come to life, telling stories of shared histories and showing how the land’s memory ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

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 ...

One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

The defining moment came with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II, marking not only the end of the Byzantine Empire but also signalling the close of the European Middle Ages.