A son was born to Yakup, a converted Muslim Sipahi, and his Greek wife in the late 15th century in the village of Palaiokipos on Lesbos. This bicultural child, named Khizr, grew up with three brothers ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

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Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

Andreas Syngros was born in 1830 in Constantinople, at a time when Hellenism in the Ottoman Empire was flourishing ...

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

As a young British Army officer heading for Afghanistan, Barney Campbell visited the Dardanelles, scene of one of the First ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...