In the United States, Heide Candy Company, founded in the 1860s, also played a role in popularizing gummy-style candies. Though the company started with other confections, it later introduced Heide ...

Walking around the small, pedestrian-only island allows you to step back in time and discover the essence of Turkey through ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Although it often ranks number two as a city in Greece, Thessaloniki is number one in the country when it comes to Greek ...

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

The major Ottoman Empire-era landmark will be offering nighttime visits all summer for travelers looking to beat the heat and ...

Europe is home to some of the most breathtaking palaces in the world, each one built to showcase power, wealth, and royal ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

While doing research for his first book “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky visited more than ...

The Ottoman Empire lasted from around 1300 until 1922, and at various points in its history ruled present-day Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, and beyond.