Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

Following defeat in World War I, it was formally abolished in 1922. More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories the Ottoman sultans once ruled.

Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire traces the transformation of land disputes involving Armenians into the Armenian land question from the mid-19th century to the outbreak of the First ...

A Russian knight hacks at a serpent depicting the leaders of Germany and the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires. A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in ...