Kings and Generals' animated series on Ottoman history returns with a fascinating question - why did the powerful Ottoman ...

she turned her attention to the Islamic world and actively strengthened England’s relations with prominent Muslim powers of the time including Shah Abbas the Great of Persia and the Ottoman Empire. In ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Ottoman Empire, continues with a video ...

Inspired by the humble cabbage, Alissa Timoshkina’s new book, Kapusta, challenges stereotypes around Eastern European cuisine ...

Who were the three great Muslim “gunpowder” kingdoms that dominated the world after 1600 AD? How did Mughals - who called ...

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appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 94. Revill died March 11 at a care facility in ...

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How did Muhammad Ali Jinnah go from being a secular young man appalled by Indian interference in the Ottoman Caliphate crisis ... is my new book, East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World ...

It s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of Christianity was adopted in Nicaea present-day Iznik, Turkey Back then, ...

The friction this creates takes the temperatures of its outer casing to about 1,600 degrees Celsius, with heat shields protecting the occupants inside. So, the cheers to celebrate Sunita Williams ...

Star-shaped cutouts draw in daylight, spilling soft shadows around the scalloped arches and highlighting the building’s classical Ottoman design ... the Roman Empire, hammams, or bathhouses ...