The Ottoman Empire is often overshadowed in World War I, but its collapse was one of the war’s biggest stories. This video explains how an empire already weakened by recent wars, poor infrastructure, ...

Translated by Ali Katebi from English, “The Ottoman Empire” and “Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire” have been published by the Elmi Farhangi Publications in Tehran, ILNA reported. The Ottoman Empire ...

Ladino was once spoken by Jews expelled from Spain. Stanford scholar Nesi Altaras is immersed in the language of that lost ...

The UC Santa Barbara Library has acquired a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th century From the Middle Ages to the first decades of the 20 th century, ...

"Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art From the Khalili Collection," opening today at the Asian Art Museum, brings attention to a diverse multicultural civilization that produced its fair share of ...

Today’s release will build on previous discussions of the Millet system to explore the expansion of cultural activities in the Armenian community during the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian cultural ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

In his new book, “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World,” the historian Alan Mikhail writes: “Whether politicians, pundits and traditional historians like ...