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 ...

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

Armenian Architects, Vernacular Style and Architectural Placemaking in the Ottoman East” by Dr. Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

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 ...