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 ...

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Constantinople stood against sieges and attacks for many centuries, until finally new technology—the big cannons of the Ottoman Empire—brought down the Byzantine Empire’s capital. The fall of ...

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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.

With all due respect to my beloved cat, Fat Lou takes a mean poo. Like I remind him — and like the great Phoebe Buffay croons in her hit single — it’s not his fault. He eats like he’s still in the ...

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The palace of Topkapi near the Bosphorus strait witnessed the greatest glories and the most heartbreaking tragedies in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Currently the Topkapi palace is a museum but ...

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 ...

Once rulers of three continents, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I already weakened and divided. This video explores how poor leadership, outdated weapons, and crumbling infrastructure led to one ...