Sabbatai Zevi was the 17th-century false messiah whose life blurred the lines between Judaism and Islam as he converted to Islam for survival ...

Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating ...

The largest cavalry charge in history broke the 1683 Siege of Vienna, effectively ending Ottoman expansion into Western ...

Joining Kate today is Dr Michael Talbot, Professor in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East at University of Greenwich, to help us find out. This episode was edited by Tim Arstall ...

During the early decades of the 15th century, King Sigismund of Hungary faced turmoil in virtually every corner of his realm.

No independent Arab state of “Palestine” ever existed in history. The very concept of Palestine as a standalone territorial ...

Syrian Kurdish forces have lost control of big parts of the country this month as government troops under President Ahmed ...

By tracing caricatures, myths, rituals and voices of dissent, 'Empire in Collapse: Society and Politics' reveals how Ottoman ...

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by ...

Tell me what is your nightmare and I will tell you who you are!” The quip attributed to Freud may be apocryphal, but I think it contains a grain of truth. I don’t know what your nightmare is, but I ...

As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...