In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...

Alice Roberts is on a train to Ankara during the next leg of her Ottoman adventure. She visits the tomb of Ataturk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, who saw out the end of the empire.

The ‘etrog’ wars: How the Ottoman Empire turned a sacred fruit into a global commodity From the groves of Corfu and Cephalonia to the orchards of Tiberias and Jaffa, the saga of the etrog under ...

The word “samurai” is thrown around a lot in popular culture, but this six-part series gets down to the brass tacks of what it actually means. Covering the era of feudal Japan from 1551 to 1616, the ...

In Istanbul, Janina Ramirez discovers how the ornate ceramics known as Iznik tiles hold the key to a forgotten golden age of Turkish art. In the nearby town of Iznik, she learns how the secret ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ...

The event included a scientific workshop and a round table dedicated to the study of new archival documents and artifacts reflecting the foreign policy relations of the Kazakh Khanate of the XV-XVII ...