The New Year's first blockbuster exhibition, "The Turks", opens at The Royal Academy today. Featuring treasures never previously allowed outside the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, it will be a real eye-opener for anyone who thinks Turkey's main attractions are its beach resorts.Gregson, Jonathan...
this is a vast and complex subject of which I can present here only a first survey of the archaeological data and an indication of possibilities for further research. So, after a concise introduction of Ottoman foodways, the
The early-English enslaved Irish Catholics; the Moors enslaved the Spanish before the Spanish enslaved the Moors and Cubans; the Ottomans enslaved the Balkans and Turks; the Egyptians enslaved the Jews; the Greeks and Romans enslaved seemingly everyone. While people think of slavery as...
‘Two other incidents in April added to Yishuv anxiety. In Jaffa, citrus-owner. Samuel Tolkowsky complained that Government permission for the reappearance of Falastin, which had been closed down by the Turks for incitement to race-hatred in April 1914, could only be a source of discouragement ...
Was the Ottoman empire Sunni or Shia? Did the Sassanid Empire fall under Ghaznavid? Were the Tanzimat reformers young Ottomans? Was Muhammad Ali Jinnah Shia? Are Chandragupta Maurya and Chandra Gupta the same person? Is Zoroastrianism older than Hinduism? Did the Seljuk Turks take o...