The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the heart of the Middle East and merge in the area of Mesopotamia known as t
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In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-th
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The Chief Black Eunuch, appointed personally by the Sultan, had both the ear of the leader of a vast Islamic Empire and
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The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. A
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Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships su
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Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encoun
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“At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman arms industry was self-sufficient. But from the 1880s to World
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