A man’s ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography,” wrote William Saroyan, the Armenian ...

One of the most consequential forms of historical revision appears in those academic and pedagogical settings where the ...

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We examine how weak leadership, outdated equipment and overextended fronts—from Gallipoli to Arabia—left the Ottomans unable to withstand the pressures of global war, ultimately bringing an end to a ...

The Ottoman Empire ruled vast territories for centuries, but by the 19th and early 20th centuries, internal corruption, economic struggles, and military defeats weakened the once-mighty empire. This ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corpses of murdered Armenians lying beside the road during the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1917; ...

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The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa. By Thomas Meaney The town was supposed ...