This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

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Kings and Generals has begun remaking its animated historical documentary on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, starting with ...

Theodoros Kolokotronis is undoubtedly the ultimate symbol of the Greek War of Independence, which took place from 1821 to ...

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.

The railway soon became a target of Arab fighters in an armed uprising during World War I backed by Britain, France and other Allied forces that eventually took down the Ottoman Empire.

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This struggle, steeped in sectarian and strategic divides, fueled proxy wars and power struggles across the region ... Iran, recognizing the growing challenge posed by Ankara’s neo-Ottoman ambitions, ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more ...