Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, ...

In 1683, the Ottoman Empire launched one of the largest invasions Europe had ever seen. An army of more than 150,000 soldiers ...

Ottoman trailblazer Mihri Müşfik Hanım defied social limits to become one of Türkiye’s first women painters and a pioneer who opened art education ...

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the exiled Byzantine claimant Andreas Palaiologos bequeathed the imperial title in ...

The mosque serves as a symbol of Sultan Mahmud II’s political and military reforms, reflecting the social and administrative ...

In 1970, in an interview with a British television station, then Israeli-prime minister Golda Meir stated, “The quarrel with the Arabs is not a quarrel for a piece of land; it is not for territory, it ...

The Israel-Palestine conflict has deep historical roots, stemming from Ottoman rule and the British mandate post-World War I. The 1947 UN partition plan aimed to establish separate states for Jews and ...

Watch the first trailer for Season 4 of Expedition Files, featuring explorer Josh Gates delving into historical mysteries, ...

The Society for Armenian Studies announced the recipients of its Winter 2025 Graduate Research and Conference Grants.

Iran's missile and drone barrage on its neighbors might seem illogical and shortsighted. But the regime has a logic of its own.

Who are Kurds? The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without an independent state. Learn about their origin, history ...