The Filiki Eteria, or the Society of Friends was founded on September 14, 1814, and played a crucial role in the Greek War of Independence.

The Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, not only led to the physical annihilation of ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...

The abandoned ghost village of Levissi (known today as Kayaköy) was once an area bustling with Greeks on the slopes of a hill in Asia Minor.

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe ... Following defeat in World War I, it was formally abolished in 1922. More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories ...

We Offered You Peace, You Gave Us War. When examining the Middle Eastern conflict, particularly the ongoing tension between ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919 ... and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established. The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial ...

Sadly, recognition of human atrocities on the magnitude of the Armenian Genocide is a privilege reserved for relative peacetime, which proved elusive during much of the 20th century. For Armenians ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire. A similar case was ... East but is also symptomatic of a broader war of radical Islam against the enlightened ...