The foundation of the Ottoman Empiretook place thanks toErtugrul Gazi, who is also the subject of TV series today. The Ottomans, who settled in the Sogut and Domanic plateaus of northwest Anatolia, were located in a very strategic area. There were two dominant states in Anatolia at that ti...
Due to its more than 1000 years of history, the Byzantine Empire was one of the longest-lasting empires in the world. Although the “Eastern Roman Empire” used to be the heir of the Ancient Roman Empire, it went through a great evolution and was influenced by the Hellenic culture heavily...
History of Serbia, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Serbia from ancient times to the present. The use of the term Serb to name one of the Slavic peoples is of great antiquity. Ptolemy’s Guide to Geography, written in the 2nd
From the 10th century onward, Galata was an enclave for foreign traders—principally theGenoese—who enjoyed extraterritorial privileges behind their walls. After the Ottomans took the city in 1453, all foreigners who were not citizens of theempirewere restricted to this quarter. Around palatial embas...
Cross-in-square 11th or 12th c. church, whose identity is contested. More certainly, it became a poor house for the nearby Fatih Mosque under the Ottomans, before itself becoming a mosque. Lips MonasteryMolla Fenâri Îsâ CâmîiInside View ...
but no one had any gold to buy it with. The siege ended when the Ottomans were attacked in the East by the Mongols and their army was utterly destroyed by Timur at the battle of Ankara in 1402. Their amazing deliverance from the Turks was attributed to the intervention of the Theotokos ...
From the 10th century onward, Galata was an enclave for foreign traders—principally theGenoese—who enjoyed extraterritorial privileges behind their walls. After the Ottomans took the city in 1453, all foreigners who were not citizens of theempirewere restricted to this quarter. Around palatial embas...
(Rodópi)Mountainsto the north, and theMaritsa(also called Évros) River to the east. The southern part ofBulgariaand European Turkey, including the Gallipoli Peninsula,constitutethe remainder of the geographical region of Thrace. About one-fourth of Thrace lies inTurkey, about one-tenth in...
The citizens of Hungary know their landlocked central European country as Magyarország, ‘Land of Magyars.’ They are unique among the nations of Europe in that they speak a language that is not related to any other major European language.