The palace in the Besiktas district of Istanbul province, which is one of the Ottoman Empire's symbols of modernization, welcomed Sultan Abdulmejid on June 7, 1856. Since 1856, the palace was home ...

Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: the Christian Roman Empire, and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Constantinople’s fall ...

and retain loyalty to the Ottoman empire. With the outbreak of the first world war, however, this started to change. The rise of Arab nationalism and the dynamics of the war propaganda fomented ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First ... Eckart Frahm In the Middle East, the Assyrian Empire was followed by others, from the Persian up to the Ottoman Empire. Although ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922 ... Mr Gingeras sets out the broad context: the rise of Europe’s colonising democracies—largely liberal at home but prone to heavy-handed ...

Yet the more indigenous and long-lasting form of imperial rule, Ottoman imperialism, is often left out of contemporary historical debates. Some of the states that succeeded the Ottoman Empire have ...

Beta Film has released a swashbuckling, pulse-pounding trailer for “Rise of the Raven,” its ... Milan and Edirne — the second capital of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day Turkey ...

Having mutual trade links and economies led different regions to exist happily as one unit, and retain loyalty to the Ottoman empire. With the outbreak of the first world war, however, this started to ...