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What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare

In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...
insider.si.edu

Empire and power in the reign of Süleyman : narrating the sixteenth-century Ottoman world / Kaya Şahin, Indiana University

Introduction: Revisiting Celalzade Mustafa -- Part One. Celalzade Mustafa and the New Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Eurasia -- The Formative Years (1490-1523) -- The Secretary's Progress (1523-1534) ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

The power of poetry transcends class in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire at Center for Turkish Studies event

An ornate image of bucolic gardens inhabited by lounging Turkish poets engaged in conversation took up the screen in Schermerhorn’s eighth floor lecture hall. Though seemingly purely decorative, these ...
Archaeology

The Search for the Sultan’s Tomb

How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire A red sandstone block props open the door to ...
The New York Times

Ottoman Empire

The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...
Moviefone

Barbaroslar (2021-2022)

Barbaroslar: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the ...