Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...

On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later by 5,000 corsairs (North African privateers). Defending the island were ...

demanding from them to cede the railway for transportation of the Ottoman troops to Persia, as well as to cede two Georgian districts – Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki, as well as most of Armenia. On the ...

On the other hand, nearby Chios boasted an Ottoman garrison of 2,500 troops. While few outsiders settled in Ikaria, Ikarians forged close ties to communities across the Ottoman Empire and ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

It was here that the British Army, supported by British Empire troops from India, New Zealand and Australia, fought against the army of another empire – the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Sultan Mehmed ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

TASS/. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia traveled to Bulgaria where he took part in the events dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in ...