Rise of Empires: Ottoman Season 2 picks up eight years after the conquest of Constantinople with Sultan Mehmed II at the height of his power.However, a new threat emerges in the form of Vlad the ...

Vlad and Mehmed face off. Maria and Gülbahar foil the Wallachian plot. Ottoman troops march into an abandoned Târgoviște and face a gruesome sight.

Karga Seven Pictures, the producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Company, has taken the rights to 'The World: A Family ...

It’s a bundle of themes which gather strength as the empire’s own begins to ebb: by the mid-17th century many were aware that the Ottoman system was not running as it was meant to. A link was commonly ...

This strategy posed a significant threat to the interests of the Ottoman Empire and led to naval skirmishes over vital supplies – especially pepper. Eventually both empires tried to establish ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

Here we look at seven of the most sadistic sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Mehmed II – known as ... famous for having his Grand Viziers executed that it gave rise to a popular curse in the empire: “May ...