Archaeological excavations in the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale, Turkey uncovered a 366-year-old castle bath built by Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, a significant figure of the Ottoman ...
Kadare's (The Successor ) beast of a novel traces a 15th-century Ottoman siege of a Christian citadel in Albania. Ugurlu Tursun Pasha is commander-in-chief of a... Ismail Kadare, Author ...
In Istanbul, he adopted the name Mehmed Emin Pasha, integrating himself into the Ottoman cultural and administrative landscape. His expertise in medicine earned him respect and recognition ...
The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that ...
next to my mother’s coffee cups and dishes that she brought as part of her dowry In my dissertation entitled as “Ahmed Cevdet Pasha: A Connected History of a Late Ottoman Governor, Jurist, and ...
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow ...