Niehoff-Panagiotidis, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, said the oldest of the roughly 25,000 Ottoman works found in the monastic libraries dates to 1374, or 1371.

Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good. As a historian of the Ottoman Empire, I believe it is criminal to keep millions of people disconnected from their own recent past.

In 1565, the mighty Ottoman Empire launched a massive siege against the tiny island of Malta expecting a swift victory. But ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman History and World Wars continues with a video on why the Arabs revolted against the Ottomans before and during the Great ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

His dissertation formed the basis of his highly influential book “Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli” (1986), which many scholars credit for transforming the ...

A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been relegated to the annals of history, with little ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30. A s it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather ...

Londoners may be interested to know that a variety of historical links to the Ottoman Empire are closer to home than they ...

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts. IE 11 is not supported.