Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

The rooms appear to be around 1,500 years old when the city was the ... The church was built over during the time the Ottoman Empire had control of the city. Due to much of its structure still ...

The empire’s motto, "The Eternal State" or Devleti-i Ebed-muddet, reveals the level of Ottoman ambition ... diplomat describing England in the 1500s, and that during the second siege of Vienna ...

Not to mention the Romans or the Greeks. But one empire that sometimes gets forgotten, outside Turkey, is the Ottoman. On the 100th anniversary of its end on November 1 1922, we look at five ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...