The Battle of Kosovo (1389) marked a critical moment in the Serbian-Ottoman Wars, where a united Balkan force confronted the advancing Ottomans in a fight for survival. Though the battle ended in a ...

Nikopoulos said that one of the first actions of Murad II, the Ottoman ruler who conquered Thessaloniki — the closest city to Mount Athos — was to draw up a legal document in 1430 protecting ...

Following the crushing defeat of Christian armies at Varna (1444), Hunyadi launched one final attempt to halt Ottoman expansion. But in Kosovo, the Ottomans would deliver another decisive blow ...

Sultan Murad IV, a ruler of the Ottoman Empire, would not have been a fan of Starbucks. Under his rule, the consumption of coffee was a capital offense.

"But I've always been honest - I'm an idealist," adds the great-granddaughter of the Ottoman Sultan Murad V. "I'm fighting for the Palestinians, and I've paid for it dearly in France." ...

A strong Muslim Indian woman who stands against British colonialist in 19th century India is the dynamic of the latest novel by the granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Murad V. Kenize Mourad’s “In ...

Kenize Mourad was born in France on 11 November 1939 to an Ottoman princess, the exiled granddaughter of Sultan Murad V. Less than two years later, her mother died and Mourad was left in the care ...

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts. IE 11 is not supported.