A force numbering some fifteen to twenty thousand, the Janissaries were the spearhead of the Ottoman army and the principal military and police force in Constantinople itself. They patrolled the ...

The Ottoman Empire arose in modern Turkey at the turn of the 14th century. It emerged from the unification of the old Seljuk ...

The Middle East innovated in mathetmatics, navigation, and weaponry. The Ottoman Empire had its leading Enderun School at Topkaki Palace, a multicultural boarding school that would gather the most ...

Ottoman Lands: 100 Years Ago And Now The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate not just the Anatolian peninsula, but large swaths of ...

Since then he has produced over 70 concerts with DUNYA and released 6 CDs and a DVD. Recently, he is writing a book about the organization and the music of the Ottoman Janissary Bands and is teaching ...

Memoirs of Janissary,' written for the Polish king, there was more justice under the Turks at his time than in Serbia preceding the Turkish conquest. Ottoman Turks, like the Habsburgs, were good ...

This book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth-century. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, ...

With the Ukraine conflict, the construction of accounts to explain a given nation’s interest in particular lands is very much with us. Notions of some form of inherent identity or “deep history” are ...

Farhan, Sara 2022. Women Doctors and the Medical Profession in Iraq during the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol. 18, Issue. 1, p. 59. Segev, Ronen 2024.

Dunelm is selling a 'stylish' and 'versatile' ottoman that many shoppers say is ideal for 'small spaces'. Finding the perfect storage option for each room can be hard especially when you live in a ...