On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkey's ...

Young wrestlers compete during the 664th annual Historic Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling championship, in Edirne, northwestern Turkey. A young wrestler is doused in oil before the bout.

France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, allowing the 11th-century masterpiece to come back across the Channel for the ...

Morocco and Iran have shared a complex relationship shaped by intellectual exchange, Sufi influence, and failed diplomatic ...

In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and ...

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

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The massacres of Greeks and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1914–1918) led to the almost total depopulation of the town’s 6,500 Greek inhabitants by 1918. These ...

The Virgin and Child mosaic, 9th century BC, Hagia Sophia. The mosaic is located in the apse semi-dome of Hagia Sophia. In the mosaic, Mary is enthroned, and she puts her right hand on the shoulder of ...