📜 Siege of Vienna: Opening Bombardment - Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire ...
One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a way to invert the memory of the day on which the Western world secured its ...
Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the ...