The UK to one side, the former Warsaw Pact often housed populations that resented Moscow’s dominance during the ... by the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Including Romania, and for a while ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest ... Some of the thermal baths built during the Ottoman occupation are still active and quite popular today. A good deal of Turkish ...

Vlad III Draculea was the voivode (a prince-like military leader) of Walachia—a principality that joined with Moldavia in 1859 to form Romania ... from the Ottoman Empire—60 years before ...

Within the Ottoman empire he was known as “the lawgiver”. During his reign, the empire acquired a new legal code and underwent a period of cultural renaissance powered by a blend of Christian ...

Indeed, for some scholars, as Ryan Gingeras reminds us in The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, the collapse of the empire “began with its defeat before Vienna in 1683”. During the last century ...

the Ottoman Empire was relatively safe for Jews during this period. Jews escaping Christian Europe, both Ashkenazim and Sephardim, settled in the Ottoman empire, with the major Jewish settlements ...

The new Ottoman sultan included Abdulhamid in his entourage and even brought him along during state visits to Europe and Egypt. By 1876, however, the knives were out for Abdulaziz, as the empire ...