The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

In 1922, the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The story of Ikaria’s independence from Ottoman rule is part of the empire’s troubles before WWI. But remarkably, this remote Ottoman possession achieved ...

March 3, 2025, marks the 101th anniversary of the fall of the Khilafah, when the Ottoman Caliphate was officially abolished ...

Kings and Generals is remaking its animated historical documentary on the history of the Ottoman Empire, beginning with ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed in the wake of its defeat in World War I, its lands were divided into Western spheres of influence, guided, if not governed, by France and England. The new ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine ... By the 19th century, though, the empire had entered into terminal decline and was frequently referred to as the "sick man of Europe." ...

The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire ...

NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan’s Kii Peninsula in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) were at risk of disintegrating until researchers hit upon the idea of ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...