For over three centuries, Russia and the Ottoman Empire fought a dozen wars — and the results were almost always the same. This video traces how a modernizing Russia repeatedly defeated a stagnating ...

The Çırağan Palace Kempinski Istanbul, once an Ottoman imperial residence, is now a luxury hotel overlooking the Bosphorus. Its most lavish accommodation, the Sultan Suite, costs over $52,000 per ...

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The Russian and Ottoman Empires had been warring over strategic interests in the Balkans and Caucasus for centuries. The two crumbling empires had already sparred in 1856 and 1877 over Russia’s ...

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Even when she was a little kid, Ruti Wajnberg knew her grandma’s brown ottoman was ugly. She loved it anyway. Whenever she and her sisters would make the trek from New Jersey to visit their ...

The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of Edirne. Sinan, the most famous of Ottoman architects in the 16th century, ...

The Swedish theologian and traveler Michael Eneman journeyed through the East in the early 18th century, documenting valuable observations from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Cyprus, and Constantinople.

Corvin Castle is a castle in Hnedoara, a city in Transylvania, Romania. The castle dates to the 15th century and was built in the Renaissance-Gothic style. The builder of Corvin Castle was John ...