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 ...

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

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).

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.

The Seljuk victory in this battle opened up Anatolia to nomadic Turkic settlers, including the likes of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire. Nomadic invaders from the east had always been a cause ...

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 ...

May 19 is recognized as a day of remembrance for the atrocities committed by the Kemalist forces, which ultimately led to the annihilation of the Pontian Greeks—350,000 victims through massacres, ...

The Ottoman caliphate, whose nature was reinterpreted ... nationalist movement as it fought against the Allied forces in Anatolia. The nationalists established the Grand National Assembly in ...

The landing of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Samsun on May 19, 1919, is regarded as a turning point in the history of Türkiye’s ...