Had Ertugrul Osman, the exiled heir to the Ottoman throne ... his legendary grandfather, Sultan Abdulhamit II, who reigned for 33 years in the empire's final decades. But dwelling in the past ...

The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by “compression of the testicles ...

Jem Duducu, author of "The Sultans" (Amberley Publishing ... What has any of this got to do with the Ottoman Empire? Enter Osman, a Seljuk Turk, the man who is seen as the founder of the empire ...

He was the last surviving grandson of an Ottoman sultan and was regarded ... He was a descendant of Osman I, the Anatolian ruler who established the Ottoman Empire. The empire, which grew to ...

Ertugrul Osman, grandson of Sultan Abdulhamid II and heir to the ... author of "Lords of the Horizons," which tells the history of the Ottoman Empire, in an e-mail to CNN. "Osman himself was ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

Though accomplished as a painter, looking back on Osman Hamdi Bey as just ... Hamdi Bey was a key figure in redefining Ottoman art and establishing many of the empire’s cultural institutions.

The ensemble’s most recent and final program of their season, “In the Realm of Osman,” showcased Ottoman Empire music and art from the 17th to 19th centuries. “It’s been an ...

Kidnapped from her Slavic homeland and sold into sex slavery as a child, Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, eventually ...