Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

Ascend over Skopje, the "City of Statues," where Ottoman history meets a surreal, neo-classical revival. The drone glides across the Stone Bridge, a 15th-century landmark that spans the Vardar River, ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

In a new book, a Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) professor challenges the traditional notion that the Ottoman Empire crumbled slowly, as a result of ethnic and religious ...

Ortaylı left behind a legacy of popularizing Ottoman history in Turkey through his decades of media appearances and over 40 ...

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 ...

Suleyman the Magnificent had his hand on Christendom’s throat. He could paralyze all of Europe’s trade at the drop of a Turkish turban and had more Christian subjects massed under his rule than any ...

When one looks back at Türkiye’s intellectual life over the past half century, a few figures stand out not only for their ...

Ottoman trailblazer Mihri Müşfik Hanım defied social limits to become one of Türkiye’s first women painters and a pioneer who ...