One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

Incredible legends have sprung up around Louis II, Hungary's last Jagiellonian king, who was born prematurely and died at ...

However, as Cagaptay observes, this contrasts with the Ottoman period when Moscow famously described the Ottoman Empire as the ‘sick man of Europe’ which it wanted to disembody. Cagaptay is also ...

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Suleiman regarded as the magnificent by the Turkish, who destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary in 1526, died in Hungary.

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...