The major cities of Central Europe built along the Danube were the focus of key battles in the war between Muslims and ...

Erdogan’s ambitions in Syria go beyond fighting ISIS. Is he laying the foundation for a modern Ottoman Empire?

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world profoundly.

The Gaza Strip has been "the powder keg of the Middle East," facing conflict for approximately 70 years. It also has a history of multiple changes in ruling authorities over the decades. Once part of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. US President Donald Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after ...

After having followed this course, you will have: gained familiarity with the main developments and institutions of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires. acquired a grasp of historiographical and ...

The Pontic Genocide refers to the mass killings and forced deportations of Pontic Greeks by the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1922, as part of a broader campaign against Christian minorities. Greece ...

Here it is. These are the gunpowder plotters, the infamous Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators who, on the 5th of November 1605, tried to blow up a packed parliament in the name of their ...

Second, the Ottoman domains did not extend eastward toward Central ... to see Pakistani strategists tie themselves retroactively to the Mughal Empire, one of the great gunpowder empires of the 16th, ...