In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and ...

By the early 16th century, the Ottoman empire had one of the largest Jewish communities in the word. Constantinople, the city wasn’t officially renamed Istanbul until 1930, became a real blend ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

EDIRNE, Turkey -- On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ...

Egypt has inaugurated a newly restored Ottoman mosque, built by the 16th century governor Suleyman Pasha al-Khadim, that lies within the citadel that has dominated Cairo’s skyline for centuries.

The Ottoman Empire, which gained prominence and world power in the 14th and 15th centuries and on, had a significant effect on the Jews of the era, and for many centuries served as a relative safe ...

He was an expert in the Age of Süleyman the Lawgiver—the longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire—for which his professorship was named. “Cornell showed us the life of the people who built the ...

A century after its demise, ... as Ryan Gingeras reminds us in The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, ... A 16th-century miniature shows Ottoman scientists experimenting with an armillary sphere ...

During the 16th century, ... in which it would depend not on the Ottoman empire for its legitimacy but instead the support of the world's Muslims. But such a plan would need powerful backing.

Cornell Fleischer specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of ... a 16th-century sultan who was the Ottoman Empire’s longest-reigning ...