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 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 ...

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.

Kosem Sultan was a woman who refused to be just another widow on the Ottoman court - instead she became a real ruler of the empire. Her decisions made such an impact, that after her death noblemen in ...

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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 ...