In the history of its numerous attempts (there were more than ten of them) to capture the ancient capital of Byzantium, there were several times that Russia was just a step away from realizing its ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

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HISTORY: The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power 1898-1918, By Sean McMeekin, Allen Lane, 460pp. £25 THROUGHOUT THE 1980s the CIA funnelled arms to anti-Soviet ...