Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the early modern world and the Ottoman history ...

On June 9, 1826, the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, the sultan of Ottoman administrative reforms and aka Sultan Adli, deployed in the horse field in Istanbul where Janissaries forces that ...

Elif Shafak, a professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of Arizona, is of Turkish descent. Her first novel in English, "The Saint of Incipient Insanities," was just published by Farrar, ...

Born from conquest, trained from childhood, and loyal only to the Sultan—the Janissaries were the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. Cuba reacts after Trump issues "last moments" warning Iran names ...

The Egyptian revolt was not simply a revolt against the tyranny of the crony capitalist-military alliance, it was also a revolt against the prevalent Orientalist conception; the inferiority the ...

Civilization VI's next expansion is out now. We've been playing it for some time, and while we found the new systems to feel a little insubstantial, we loved the new civs, as you can read in our ...