Hakan T. Karateke, cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, will present "New Approaches to Ottoman Jewry," from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, May 3, at Oakton's Skokie campus, 7701 N.

At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed among its neighbours. To its east lay the Timurid Empire. Sultan Bayezid ...

SARASOTA — Local academic and author Niki Karavasilis has dedicated the last 20 years to bringing to life stories of the past. Since her retirement in 1995, she has written eight books, largely ...

In 1386, gathering a multi-ethnic army, Prince Lazar of Serbia defeated the local Ottoman commander Lala Sahin Pasha at ...

The BMW Center for German and European Studies, in conjunction with the Department of German, held an event entitled, “Ottoman Perspectives on the First World War” on March 20. The goal of the talk ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

Qatar National Library (QNL) organised an event under the title ‘In the Footsteps of an Ottoman Traveller: Retracing the Routes of Evliya Celebi’, hosted by Turkish travel writer Seymen Bozaslan. This ...