Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

"It is utterly dangerous and wrong to mischaracterise the investigations," Turkish Justice Minister Yilzam Tunc said.

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Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

To commemorate the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and as part of its commitment to historical ...

Bulgaria celebrates Levski as the Apostle of Freedom. Born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on July 18, 1837, he was crucial in ...

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Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and agitator in the ...

Their only written guide was a map they brought with them ... After traveling as cheaply as possible through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they finally arrived in India – the destination ...

T E Lawrence. Archaeologist, spy and writer. This man who rallied the Arabs to defeat the Ottoman Empire, documenting his account in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

If we consider the map of the Ottoman Empire, it would be classified as a “dormant empire,” large in territory yet confined to its regional land boundaries. Such empires are characterized by an ...