The Ottoman Empire is one of the most important and influential major empires in history, though it is sometimes overlooked ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

The carnage presently wrought by these avatars of a revitalized Caliphate, simply mirrors, in all its gory, and seemingly depraved detail, the actions of their Ottoman Caliphate "prototype" ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine ... in the 16th and 17th centuries, sparing then-Christian Europe from near-certain defeat. By the 19th century, though, the empire had entered ...