One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

Following the Fall of Constantinople and the conquest of Trebizond and Morea, the Ottoman Empire faced fierce resistance in ...

Suleiman regarded as the magnificent by the Turkish, who destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary in 1526, died in Hungary.

How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

Dracula Untold, directed by Gary Shore, is about a vampire gifted with immense powers. However, it departs from Bram Stoker's classic origin story to show Dracula from a different perspective.

In 1459 Mehmed II sent an embassy to Vlad III, claiming a tribute of 10,000 ducats and 300 young boys. When the diplomats declined to remove their turbans, citing religious custom, ...

That rivalrous, divisive, east-west relationship rumbled on for another 650 years, until Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in 1453. Raphael, ...

But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) captured Constantinople, his victory paved the way for the Ottoman Empire, which would last until 1922.

But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) captured Constantinople, his victory paved the way for the Ottoman Empire, which would last until 1922.

Mehmed was alone at the imperial court without allies, worried about palace coups and intrigues, and bereft of his own birth mother, who died in 1449. Around this time, he started to regard Mara ...

The shaft of the spear was donated to Pope Innocent VIII in 1492 by Sultan Bayezid II, son of Mehmed II. This gesture was made in gratitude for the hospitality extended to the Sultan's brother ...