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 ...

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 ...

June 28th and 29th are dates that echo through the corridors of history.One of the most impactful events in global history ...

Suleiman regarded as the magnificent by the Turkish, who destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary in 1526, died in Hungary.

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 ...

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 ...

Into this scenario enters our heroine protagonist, who became more prominent diplomatically after her engagement with Murad. The marriage to the aging Sultan was a practical gift from Durad, who ...

The 16th Century Ottoman Sultan's presents and letters belong to distant times and places. Recovering them requires all of our endeavours. Yet while we historians extend our efforts to try to give the ...

Lantos, Kadar, Vivien Rujder, who plays Hunyadi’s wife, the redoubtable Erzsébet, and Franciska Törőcsik, his first love Mara, given as a gift to Ottoman Sultan Murad by her father in an ...