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

One empire faced a modern war without modern resources. The Ottoman Empire entered World War I with weak industry, limited ...

I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Dr. Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan’s Forms of ...

February 21st marks the day in 1913 when Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in northwestern Greece, was liberated from the Ottoman troops.

Thanks to school textbooks, Müteferrika is proudly remembered as the first Muslim printer. Yet this groundbreaking achievement was only one part of a far richer intellectual legacy that deserves ...

In 1565, the Ottoman Empire launched a massive invasion to seize Malta and turn it into a gateway for further expansion into Christian Europe. Despite overwhelming numbers, internal command disputes, ...

The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...

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 ...

Unknown photographer, Constantinople, between 1888 and 1900 (all images courtesy Getty’s open content program) The Getty Research Institute has recently digitized over 6,000 19th- and early ...

Pope Francis Wednesday advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and women, including two Lebanese priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire. Fr. Leonard Melki and Fr. Thomas Saleh were Capuchin ...

The Ottoman Empire begins the grand campaign with the largest number of holdings of any empire. Unfortunately these holdings will quickly and continuously come under attack from your neighbors due to ...