In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and supporting Muslim sultanates in Indonesia to counter European colonial expansion.

At a time when art and culture flourished as much as the expanding empire’s conquests, poetry was especially important to the highest reaches of Ottoman society—namely the sultan himself. Having ...

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 of ...

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.

Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. June 23, 2015 “The Architect’s Apprentice,” by Elif Shafak. (Viking) By Bruce Holsinger.

While histories of 16th-century England generally emphasize the country’s isolationism, Brotton argues that to the contrary, ... the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Morocco. ...