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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.