GUEST: I got it from my grandmother's, um, closet when she died. GUEST: It would have been 50 years ago this year. Never had seen it before. I just think it's really pretty. GUEST ...

Many have been extensively studied, but not the Ottoman Turkish documents, products of an occupying bureaucracy that ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century — well before the Byzantine ...

That’s because there was no independent Greece from the time of the Roman conquest of the country until the 1820s; some parts of modern-day Greece were under Ottoman control into the 20 th century.

What: Lecture on the Greek genocide during World War I, which left 1.7 million Greeks and 1.8 million Armenians dead. Where: St. Barbara's Greek Orthodox Church, 7671 Lockwood Ridge Road ...

Thessaloniki, which was known as Salonica, during Ottoman times was in many ways a quintessentially Ottoman city, having been integrated into the empire decades before Constantinople.

The mosque remained a house of worship until the start of Greece’s war to separate from the Ottoman Empire. After Greek independence in 1821, the mosque was used as military barracks, a ...

Pandemic is a Greek word, but in 2021 the Greeks have had more than a virus to commemorate. This year marks the bicentennial of their revolution against the Ottoman Empire, a decadelong war in ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the gr… ...

Niehoff-Panagiotidis, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, said the oldest of the roughly 25,000 Ottoman works found in the monastic libraries dates to 1374, or 1371. That’s older than ...