Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. By Marc Van De ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, MSc in History of International Relations, MSc ...

The Ottoman Empire, which gained prominence and world power in the 14th and 15th centuries and on, had a significant effect on the Jews of the era, and for many centuries served as a relative safe ...

A devastating plague epidemic from 1812 to 1817 claimed around 300,000 lives in Istanbul, yet this crisis remains largely overlooked in history, ...

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 ...