Known as one of history’s most powerful empires, the Ottoman Empire grew from a Turkish stronghold in Anatolia into a vast state that at its peak reached as far north as Vienna, Austria ...

In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power.

For thanks to their Russian backers, the Armenians had--on the eve of the war--got the Powers to pressure the Ottomans to concede administrative reforms in eastern Anatolia; and it did not take a ...

"Ishak Pasa Palace is also important in terms of being the only [Ottoman] palace in Anatolia," Yusuf Cetin, a professor at Igdir University, told Anadolu Agency. Cetin said the Ishak Pasa Palace ...

The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler. The empire had a humble beginning as a provincial principality in Anatolia (now part of Turkey).

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922 ... albeit with terrible costs for Anatolia’s persecuted Christians. Out of the core of a ramshackle empire, the republic’s founders fashioned ...

In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power ...