Through the story of a local Vlach priest, Vardar explores how everyday figures navigated a web of local tensions and international politics involving the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, and ...

The castles of Romania are well-preserved and beautiful, with each castle having its history steeped in legends of vampires and ghosts.

In 1992, Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, married former Miss Turkey Manolya Onur, who was also a member of the Ottoman dynasty, that once ruled Turkey under the Ottoman Empire.

A large swatch of Eastern and Central Europe was dominated or threatened by the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Including Romania, and for a while, Hungary. Some became part of the Hapsburg empire.

The truth behind the newly-revamped Pakistan-Turkey relations lies in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream of re-establishing a modern version of the Ottoman Empire, and expanding Ankara ...

The inclusion of the Ottoman Empire into the sphere of European influence was seen as essential for solving the “eastern question”, however, the Treaty of Paris did little to address this conundrum.

The ruthless brutality of Vlad III of Walachia, forged by the 15th-century clash between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, would partly inspire Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel ...

Irina Georgescu on Eastern Europe’s secret plant-based dishes - Often seen as a meat-lover’s haven, the Eastern European ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

A castle in Romania survived multiple empires, and its history involves a dark past, a legend of forbidden love and an heir ...

The First World War brought about the collapse of four multinational empires – the Russian empire in 1917, and then the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires in 1918. They collapsed in ...

The second item is a postcard sent by a jailed Jew in 1941, during WWII, for his failure to pay an additional tax, that was imposed after the Ottoman empire joined the war.