Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Atatürk’s government, capping a campaign begun in 1916 by Enver Pasha that ...

Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the ...

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of ...

In the past year, GSAS students across programs have earned a wide range of external grants and fellowships. Th ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Elisa Triolo, CC-BY-SA-2.0 In the turbulent years following the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 during the ... Soissons, 1201: History painting by Henri Decaisne, early ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

Credit: Old Photos of Thessaloniki/Facebook A single image from the 1860s, posted in 2017 in the Facebook group “Old Photos of Thessaloniki,” sent ripples through local history circles ... appears in ...