The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered ...

Ottoman Empire by Train (Channel 4 ... but there was no wow factor to the city’s oldest mosque, or to the more modern mosque ...

During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, cafes regularly entertained the likes of Voltaire, Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, and Isaac Newton. Later, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre would spend ...

directed her troops to conquer a town and lands that had been occupied for a couple of hundred years by the Ottoman Empire. The city was developed by a succession of foreigners — the founding ...

Most people need a passport, a visa, and a long-haul flight to hop between continents. But in Istanbul, all you need is a ...

Ypsilanti is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan named after Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero in the Greek War of Independence.

Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century. Alice Roberts ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

As many as eight repeated attempts to capture the city were fended off with fierce ... a force to be reckoned with in this part of the Ottoman Empire. Kamal S. Salibi writes that he set a ...

The book was written by Mohamed Arif Pasha, the clerk of Mohamed Ali Pasha and the governor of Tekirdağ in the Ottoman Empire, and its original copy is preserved at Istanbul University ...

From the first coffee houses in the Ottoman Empire to Boston’s famed London Coffee House, cafes have always been an egalitarian place to gather, sip, and share ideas, many of which have ...