Prince Borivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (probably) started building Prague Castle in AD 880, and over the centuries various ...

Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

Sultan Abdulmejid I commissioned the Fossati brothers to restore the structure, reinforcing the dome, restoring mosaics, and adding a clock building and a madrasa. The renovated mosque reopened on ...

Participants at a pro-Palestinian rally over the weekend in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka were seen carrying portraits of Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as they protested Israel's ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

"They are a stain on my integrity." "But I've always been honest - I'm an idealist," adds the great-granddaughter of the Ottoman Sultan Murad V. "I'm fighting for the Palestinians, and I've paid ...

But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed ... However, a century later, sultan Suleiman I had them plastered over. It’s thanks to the creation of the Turkish Republic created ...