“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... To put things in perspective, the exhibition displays a ...

By Ian Morris GOD’S SHADOW Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the ... in America was much the same as fighting them in Europe, Asia or Africa. “God’s Shadow” is full ...

And throughout the renaissance, the Ottomans became the biggest trade partner of western Europe. The walls of the city of Vienna marked the apex of the Ottoman’s empire power and the beginnings ...

The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

Larson A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire ... longer than the Roman Empire — and encompassed lands stretching from the Balkans and southeastern Europe through the Levant and into ...

This book stands out prominently from the mass of ephemeral political writings on the Near East, for it is a serious scholarly study of one of the most important phases of European activity in the ...

Dishes such as the kebab made their way to Europe through the Ottoman Empire (Flickr/Lesya Dolyk) Coffee shops were popularised across the empire, arriving in the Ottoman capital in the 1550s via ...