Hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Istanbul to mark the 562nd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of the city. The huge crowds gathered for a mass ceremony on the outskirts of ...

One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a way to invert the memory of the day on which the Western world secured its ...

Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and regional diplomacy. Now comes a film to boost the feel-good mood, an epic about the 15th century fall of Constantinople that fuses ...

AMMAN — After the Ottoman conquests in 1517, Syria and Egypt were relegated to a peripheral administrative status by the new rulers, according to Turkish historian Gul Sen from the University of Bonn.

Introduction -- Reusing the work of past times and foreign lands -- The Ottoman sultan: victorious and pious -- Society and its divisions -- A world of three religions: Ottoman conquests and the ...

AMMAN — The Ottoman conquest of the Levant in 1517 had an impact on the economic models of the Mamluk dynasty that ruled the area from 1250 until 1517. One of the Mamluk state monopolies was the sugar ...

Turkic tribe known as Ottomans forms small state in western Anatolia. Ottomans inflict second defeat on Serbs, now led by Prince Lazar, at the Battle of Kosovo, beginning slow conquest of Serbia.

People walk past an advertisement for "Conquest 1453" displayed in snow outside a cinema in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and ...