Middle East experts say changing national borders in the region would cause chaos as US President Donald Trump and close ally Israel push policies to reshape alliances in the region. The warnings came ...

On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkey’s ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

Since its founding in 1832‭ ‬in the sleepy Swiss village of Saint-Imier‭, ‬Longines has blazed a trail characterised by ...

In just eight years, Selim I transformed the Ottoman Empire through bold conquests and strategic diplomacy, doubling its territory and securing its dominance in the Islamic world. This video ...

Until 1912-'13, when the changes in the map of the Balkans began, the Albanians served the empire, but after the creation of new situations in the region, the Albanians were forced to revive ...

A complete digital map could thus be drawn for the entire empire, which would visualize a) all the minor as well as major routes in the empire and b) the distances between postal stations in hours.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

Revolutionaries and activists stationed on the eastern shores of the United States flipped racially oppressive political ideologies to remedy anti-Armenian cruelties in the Ottoman Empire.

Mehmed did not comply, and the city was plundered. The Empire of Trebizond was the last Byzantine Greek state to fall under Ottoman rule, 24 emperors and 257 years after its founding. The Ottomans ...