Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the ...

Cossacks were a social and military group that by the 10th century settled in southern Russia and present-day Ukraine. They had a Turkic origin and had arrived with hordes of Mongol invasions in the ...

The 17th-century paintings illustrating a hunting expedition by the nineteenth Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV are being exhibited in a museum in the Swedish capital. Twenty oil paintings on the hunting ...

Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the ...

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 ...

Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the ...