That glory was short-lived. The railway soon became a target of Arab fighters in an armed uprising during World War I backed ...

While excavating Visegrád Citadel, a 13th-century fortress north of Budapest, Hungary, that was once a royal residence, ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

By asserting itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is reshaping the regional order established after World War I. This shift weakens the legacy of Arab nationalism and offers a ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe ... Following defeat in World War I, it was formally abolished in 1922. More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919 ... and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established. The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial ...

NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan’s Kii Peninsula in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) were at risk of disintegrating until researchers hit upon the idea of ...

The province, centered on the chief city and capital of the same name, had been part of the Ottoman Empire from 1534 to 1878, when the Russians annexed it following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

The railway soon became a target of Arab fighters in an armed uprising during World War I backed by Britain, France and other Allied forces that eventually took down the Ottoman Empire.