Kutuzov in the Harem
Catherine II — “Padishah of the Russians”, a title the Porte conceded in Article Thirteen…
Prometeus
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The Empress, the Sultan, and the Fatal Dispatch
If the first quarrel between Muscovy and the Ottoman Empire was set off by the…
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La La… Pasha
Since we are on the subject of the Ottomans in Erzurum, it would be remiss…
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The Word That Was Demoted
In the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan stretched from the South China…
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The Straw That Learned to Write
There was in Proto-Indo-European a word *ḱolh₂mos, “straw, stalk.” From it descend Latin culmus, German…
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The Shape and the Name
Theodosiopolis changed hands with a regularity that must have exhausted its stonemasons: Byzantines, Arabs, Byzantines…
