Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

© MS Sarajevo, Gazi Husrev-beg Library, R-3880, ff. 1b-2a, (Gulistān-i Saʿdī). From the 14th century onward, the Old Anatolian Turkish literary language underwent ...

Montenegro's Oct. 8, 1912, declaration of war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire and its Oct. 9 attack on neighboring Albania, an Ottoman protectorate, stunned Europe. Montenegro, a military midget, ...

Turkey conquered the Balkans five centuries ago. Now Turkish power is making inroads through friendlier means. Two Turkish-run universities have opened in Bosnia's Ottoman-influenced capital in recent ...

In the early 15th century, the Balkans and Eastern Europe as a whole suffered under Ottoman raids and conquest. The Ottoman ...

Gerolymatos features the wars that allowed the Ottoman Empire to ascend in the Balkans and then, 400 years later, expire. He uses those wars to expose history's abuse of Greeks, Serbs, and Turks, as ...

One of the new and unexpected cultural trends spreading across the Middle East and the European Balkans is the reemergence of Ottoman culture through soap operas. Yes, soap operas are the new trend in ...