The Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Sailing ships and the ships of the desert -- The steamship and the steam locomotive -- Imperialism and transportation technology -- ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is meeting his French opposite number, Francois Hollande, Thursday evening, as France seems keener than ever to bring Russia in from the cold to join its anti-Islamic ...

One hundred years on from the official end of their empire on 1 November 1922, it is time to look afresh at the Ottomans. Lasting over six centuries, from 1299 till 1922, spanning the three continents ...