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

What if the world’s borders had frozen in time, unchanged since 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I? In this ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Most Americans don’t know that their morning cup of coffee connects them to the Ottoman Empire. Few are aware that this bygone Muslim state helped to birth Protestantism, America’s dominant ...

“Venice stood at the crossroads of a vast trade network connecting Africa, Asia, and Europe,” writes Frist Art Museum Curator at Large Trinita Kennedy. “To maintain its status as an ...

‘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.