Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...
Bursa is only a few hours from Istanbul, with a unique culture and renowned artistic traditions of its own.
This video explores the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the lens of the First Balkan War. It examines the complex ...
The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...
By tracing caricatures, myths, rituals and voices of dissent, 'Empire in Collapse: Society and Politics' reveals how Ottoman ...
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 ...
The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...
Unknown photographer, Constantinople, between 1888 and 1900 (all images courtesy Getty’s open content program) The Getty Research Institute has recently digitized over 6,000 19th- and early ...
The Ottoman Empire’s seeming tolerance of non-Muslim religions was part of a way to manage communities that drew the empire’s suspicions, according to an Osaka Metropolitan University historian.
A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by ...