Even 77 years after his death, the legacy of Fahreddin Pasha continues to symbolise the Ottoman Empire’s centuries-long ...

In just eight years, Selim I transformed the Ottoman Empire through bold conquests and strategic diplomacy, doubling its territory and securing its dominance in the Islamic world. This video explores ...

In the context of military technological developments in eastern Europe, the notion of an Ottoman decline needs to be called into question. In this essay Keith Krause's model for the spread of ...

In 1386, gathering a multi-ethnic army, Prince Lazar of Serbia defeated the local Ottoman commander Lala Sahin Pasha at ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

Vartkes Serengülyan, elected to the Parliament with a hundred thousand votes from Erzurum, emphasized that enlisting everyone without discrimination based on class was essential. He highlighted that ...

In one framing device, Ottoman history IS military history, or rather, the history of the Ottomans is the history of their military class. The basic division of Ottoman society into reaya and askeri ...

Crescent Dawn is a highly readable and well researched military and political history of the Ottoman empire during its rise. The book is illustrated with eight clear maps, several family trees, and a ...