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

Spiritual leader and business magnate Prince Karim Aga Khan, considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, was remembered fondly by admirers in Pakistan and Lisbon on ...

The commanding Clock Tower, which is a stone’s throw from the light rail stop, was built in in 1900 in “Palestine” by the ...

Thanks to the generosity of the Felix Scholarship Trust, Felix Scholarships are available to Indian nationals with first class degrees to pursue postgraduate studies at SOAS, University of London. The ...

It was introduced in these lands in the 17th century during the Ottoman Empire and it wasn’t taxed ... across the river bank in Bulgaria or Serbia. “It’s an interesting way that we’ve ...

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on January 16 to elect a government headed by Rossen Zhelyazkov, following a month of talks hosted by Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF coalition, which won the largest share of ...

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party refused on Thursday to form a new government, bringing the Balkan country closer to snap polls in the autumn. Bulgaria is embroiled in a ...

These walls later enclosed the Turkish neighborhood during Ottoman rule. Zhivkov emphasized that such Roman-era defensive structures, especially from the first half of the 1st century, are rare ...

Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created there towards the end of the 9th Century. It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...