The Ottoman Empire once ruled vast territories across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Europe, shaping world ...

More than a century after the guns went silent, The World in Maps is highlighting the human cost of World War I. Marked in ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

‘The Ottomans’ Review: Rainbow Empire Historians often cast the Ottoman Empire as Europe’s rival—ignoring the connections between the two. Undated painting of the Battle of Chaldiran in 1517.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

The Ottoman Empire, which gained prominence and world power in the 14th and 15th centuries and on, had a significant effect on the Jews of the era, and for many centuries served as a relative safe ...

Two Catholic priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire were beatified in Lebanon over the weekend. Father Leonard Melki and Father Thomas Saleh were Capuchin friars and missionaries in what is now ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 16, 2019, Section D, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Overlooked No More: Mihri Rassim, Feminist Artist in the Ottoman Empire.

Rome Newsroom, Jun 6, 2022 / 09:40 am Two Catholic priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire were beatified in Lebanon over the weekend. Father Leonard Melki and Father Thomas Saleh were Capuchin ...