CAIRO, July 3. /TASS/. The new Syrian government has presented the country’s new coat of arms — a hawk with outstretched wings and three stars above its head — during celebrations in Damascus as ...

Mehmed II, known as "The Conqueror," transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant Muslim superpower through military genius, administrative reform, and the monumental conquest of Constantinople.

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...