When empires fall, they tend to stay dead ... distinctively Islamic government began to falter. The Ottoman Empire, whose ruler claimed to lead the Islamic world as caliph, adopted a series ...

and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453.

What was the secret of their success, and what ultimately caused the empire's fall? How do the Ottomans ... three pillars of Ottoman inheritance: Byzantium, Islam, Mongols; the origins and rise of the ...

an Afghan princess and second wife to the man who would’ve ruled the Ottoman empire had it still existed in 1994 but instead settled for a Manhattan walk-up, is waging a war against the absentee ...

Behind the golden walls of the imperial harem, the real power of the Ottoman Empire often rested with its women. In this documentary, we explore the Sultanate of Women era, when royal women influenced ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...