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 ...

Yet today Vlad III is something of a national hero in Romania, where he is remembered for defending his people from foreign invasion ... s borders from the Ottoman Empire—60 years before ...

Across Siberia and Russia's far eastern regions, more than 120 memorials to participants in the invasion of Ukraine have been installed at a cost of at least 500 million rubles ($5.6 million ...

"It remains an extraordinary story," said Mathew Lyons in Literary Review. On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined ...

Daddy Vlad was released, but the boys had to remain – it was insurance that the ruler of Wallachia would be more forgiving toward the Ottomans. After all… they had his sons! While a captive of ...

but who in Albania is considered a national hero for restraining the powerful Ottoman Empire, slowing down the invasion of the Adriatic area during a decade in parallel with Vlad of Wallachia and ...

It has seen numerous empires come and go from the Roman and Ottoman to the Austro-Hungarian ... staunch supporter of Kyiv since the full-scale invasion in 2022. It has provided a Patriot missile ...

Vlad III belonged to the House of Drăculești, a powerful dynasty that ruled Wallachia. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, a knightly group sworn to defend Europe from ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ... discharged Ypsilantis from his army. The Ottomans slaughtered the Sacred Band, a force mainly composed of volunteers and students of the Greek communities of ...

How Vlad III of Wallachia died: the clash with the Ottomans Vlad had to face the expansion of the ... The voivode refused to submit and repelled an invasion in 1462. The victory was celebrated as a ...

Legally, the Ottomans could not move their forces into Wallachia or Moldavia without Russian permission ... secretly informed the government of the Ottoman Empire of the planned invasion. On February ...