The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate ... in battle at the gates of Vienna, in the 16th and 17th centuries, sparing then ...

a 16th-century complex built to honor the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I. Founded in the Anatolia region of what is now Turkey in 1299, the Ottoman Empire eventually became a global power and remained ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

From afar, the artwork looks like a classic Ottoman miniature. Get close, and scenes pulled from popular movies, internet memes and pop culture come alive. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren meets ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... And in a section devoted to a 16th-century Venetian shipwreck—which displays circular windowpanes created for the harem ...