The abandoned ghost village of Levissi (known today as Kayaköy) was once an area bustling with Greeks on the slopes of a hill in Asia Minor.

The 16th-century Ottoman ruler Sultan Suleyman liked to impose himself on foreign monarchs from the start, always beginning ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

Malta was of minimal strategic importance, and defeat did not temper the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent's ambitions. To convey this without detracting from the drama of the siege is a ...

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 words below it are written in Turkish, and proclaim Suleiman's role as Sultan, ruler specifically of the Ottoman Empire, and sovereign of all its subjects - Muslim, Jewish or Christian.