Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...
Once rulers of three continents, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I already weakened and divided. This video explores how ...
In one framing device, Ottoman history IS military history, or rather, the history of the Ottomans is the history of their military class. The basic division of Ottoman society into reaya and askeri ...
Biden had pledged to recognize the Armenians' treatment as a genocide. President Joe Biden formally recognized the Ottoman Empire's killing and deportation of Armenians over a century ago as a ...
The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...