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Kosem Sultan was a woman who refused to be just another widow on the Ottoman court - instead she became a real ruler of the empire. Her decisions made such an impact, that after her death noblemen in ...

Archives sometimes reward with generous surprises those afflicted by inquisitiveness and perseverance. Thankfully. Relations between Malta and Great Britain during the Hospitaller period after the ...

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 ...

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Mehmed II the Conqueror in Constantinople 1453 Steel engraving of Mehmed II ( 30 March 1432 - 3 May 1481 ), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet ), was an Ottoman ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known rulers of Greek origin held great power over a number of countries and regions throughout the world. Image: Bartolome Mitre, the First ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. By Constant ...

📜 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 ...

Sabbatai Zevi, born in 1626 in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey), remains a fascinating figure in Jewish history. Raised in a Sephardic Jewish family with a strong interest in Kabbalah, or Jewish ...