Early in Orhan Pamuk’s novel “Nights of Plague,” a young Ottoman officer comes to the eastern Mediterranean island of Mingheria to provide protection for the doctor Sultan Abdul Hamid II has ...

Nurhan Atasoy, the grand dame of Ottoman history and chronicler of its artistic wonders, may well spark another revolution with her new work, Impressions of Ottoman Culture in Europe: 1453–1699. ...

Minawi talked about how the Ottomans were a part of the European bid to secure colonies, but were able to secure colonies not by the conventional economic or military measures.

In the midst of World War I, the British were looking to do what they do best: destroy a civilization. Of course, that was not their only stated objective in the Middle East theater of World War I..

Impressions Of Ottoman Culture İn Europe : 1453-1699 Kitabı kitabının ... That grand imperial past was one that neither former Ottoman colonies nor Soviet Russia nor the West felt inclined to ...

One hundred years ago, on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent in the First World War. Germany had surrendered and the three big empires collapsed — Ottoman, Austrian and Tsarist Russia ...

At the Berlin Conference in 1884, the USA, the Ottoman Empire and 12 European countries divided up most of the African continent between them. This is known as the ‘Scramble for Africa’.