Constantinople itself was captured in 1453, sending a shock wave across Europe, and its name was changed to Istanbul. With the fall of Byzantium, a wave of Byzantine refugees fled to the Latin West, carrying with them the classical and Hellenistic knowledge that provided additional impetus to th...
In August 1916, a combined Ottoman and German Empire Army had been forced to retreat to Bir el Abd, after the British victory in the Battle of Romani. During the following three months the defeated force retired further eastwards to El Arish, while the captured territory stretching from the ...
The chief imperial architect Mimar Sinan constructed most of the currently existent complexes in Istanbul. The master architect of the Ottoman empire for 50 years, he set the pattern for other külliye architects. We will have a look at the 16th and 17th century Ottoman imperial mosques in Ista...
Less than a hundred years after the fall of Constantinople, we find the Ottomans fighting alongside the French in the Italian Wars of 1536–1538 and 1542–1546. Needless to say, this was hardly conceived as a pact with the Devil were the two protagonists were concerned, though their common ...
Sibiu and Constantinople. Transylvania under the Ottoman EmpireTransylvaniahistory1541/1690Ottomansthe Habsburgshistory of diplomacyottoman warsTransylvania, which prior was part of the Hungarian Kingdom, developed between 1541 and 1690 as an autonomous principality. The princes w...
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, also called Mehmed II, shaped the history of Topkapi Palace. Mehmed II was the Ottoman Sultan who captured Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) in 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of rule by the Ottoman royal family. After the conque...
Murad then moved through the Maritsa River valley and captured Philippopolis (Philibé or Filibe; modern Plovdiv) in 1363. Control of the main sources of Constantinople’s grain and tax revenues enabled him to force the Byzantine emperor to accept Ottoman suzerainty. The death of the Serbian...
the holy places ofIslam, Selim cements his position as the religion’s most powerful ruler. Leading Muslim intellectuals, artists, artisans, and administrators come to Constantinople from all parts of the Arab world. They make the empire much more of a traditional Islamic state than it had been...
Instead, when Adrianople was captured in 1369, the Ottomans transferred their capital there from Bursa. The Ottoman capital was now on the continent of Europe, where it would remain, with a switch to Constantinople, all the rest of the dynasty. ...
the state – the Sultan and the Caliph. Constantinople, i.e. modern-day Istanbul, was the capital. Who Founded the Ottoman Empire? Although formed as a result of the disintegration of the Turkish Anatolia into independent states (the Ghazi emirates), the credit for founding the Great Turkish...