The 17th-century paintings illustrating a hunting expedition by the nineteenth Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV are being exhibited in a museum in the Swedish capital. Twenty oil paintings on the hunting ...

Cossacks were a social and military group that by the 10th century settled in southern Russia and present-day Ukraine. They had a Turkic origin and had arrived with hordes of Mongol invasions in the ...

Mehmed IV wanted to finish what his ancestor started—take Vienna and break Europe. But fortified walls, underground traps, and unexpected allies would bring the Ottoman advance to a halt. Trea Turner ...

32.5 x 33.5 cm. (12.8 x 13.2 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the ...