The iconic Battle of Mohács was a watershed moment in Ottoman, Hungarian, and European history. I delved in Hungary's ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

Prof. Cornell H. Fleischer, a world-renowned expert of Ottoman history and scholar of the greater Islamic world, passed away in Chicago on April 21. He was 72. Known for his prowess with languages and ...

‘The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy’ and ‘The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire’ expand on histories too often dismissed as mere footnotes A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

A coin minted on behalf of Orhan Ghazi, the Ottoman Empire’s second sultan, was found during ongoing archaeological excavations at Karacahisar Castle in Türkiye’s central Eskisehir province.

Little of the writing about the massacres of Armenians, which occurred in 1915, not long before the Ottoman Empire's demise, has utilized Ottoman-language materials. Yet, Ottomanists have a ...