We begin with Halil Pasha, the Ottoman painter who captured Istanbul’s fading imperial elegance at the turn of the 20th century. From there we step into another kind of nostalgia at Pano Wine Bar, the ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

Let's cut right to the chase: yeah, that headline is a bold claim. Visiting 100+ medieval European towns takes years of obsessive travel, and a borderline-nerdy passion for Gothic history that'd make ...

Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, ...

Even as things continue to unfold in Iran, the stage looks set for the next chapter in the Turkish-Israeli contest.

The world’s largest wooden monument building seeks a second life – Its legendary history and plans for tourism use – How the Ecumenical Patriarchate managed to regain ownership from the Turkish state ...

In this episode, we engage with Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos, a Greek Australian historian and author, to discuss his ...

Sultan Süleyman I is called “the Magnificent” in the West and “the Lawgiver” in Turkey due to the codification of laws, both religious and secular, during his reign. Süleyman’s era is considered the ...

The centuries-old Saint Porphyrius Orthodox church complex, which had been sheltering displaced Palestinians, was also hit in ...

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