The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.

Today, on April 24, Armenians around the world commemorate the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, also known as Me ...

April 24 was chosen specifically since this was the day when on April 24, 1915, approximately 250 prominent Armenian ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

To mark the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on 3 July, Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass presents a special series of articles exploring the legacy of Tutankham ...

Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Washington, D.C. “Ani” Chapter led the Greater Washington ...

George Karaiskakis, born in 1780 in Mavromati, Central Greece, began his life as a bandit before becoming a bodyguard in Ali Pasha's court, where he learned the art of warfare. When the Greek War of ...

Under the Byzantines, Hagia Sophia became the hub of Orthodox Christianity and the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan ... Tevfik Pasha, a Turkish elder ...

In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, whose forces had conquered widely since ... and to the important subsidiary harbor of Marsamuscetto, which Piyale Pasha wanted to ...