With initial structures dating back to the 18th century, the barracks were constructed on the orders of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II. By 1826, the Turkish ruler had overseen the abolition of the ...

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A top draw in the Islamic section is the dazzling gun of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I: The work of both Muslim and Armenian artisans, it is decorated with over 3,000 gemstones and contains hidden ...

The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor Süleiman the Magnificent. A tughra generally includes the name of the sultan and his father along with the phrase "the eternally victorious." ...

23 at a hospital in Istanbul. He was the last surviving grandson of an Ottoman sultan and was regarded as the head of the royal family's living members. Mr. Osmanoglu would have become its sultan ...

Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s heart was not buried with his body. His body, as AnslaMed explains, went back to Constantinople, to be laid to rest beside his favorite wife ...

Now, after centuries of searching, historians might have finally uncovered the 16th-century Ottoman sultan’s lost tomb. Norbert Pap of the University of Pécs in Hungary has spent the last ...