Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

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Our seven maps below illustrate how ... making it one of the richest cities in the empire. After the first world war brought about the collapse of the Ottoman empire Britain and France rushed ...

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While excavating Visegrád Citadel, a 13th-century fortress north of Budapest, Hungary, that was once a royal residence, archaeologists uncovered a trove of military history. Inside a filled-in moat, ...

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“He has empire fetish,” says the sociologist Kerem Morgül of Elon University in North Carolina. “He promises to make Turkey great again by reviving Turkey’s Ottoman Islamic heritage as a ...