Kutuzov in the Harem
Catherine II — “Padishah of the Russians”, a title the Porte conceded in Article Thirteen…
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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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Father of the Conquest
While England was busy losing France and preparing to lose its mind—Henry VI’s collapse was…
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The Principality Nobody Was Watching
An empire that began by being beneath notice Anatolia had been under Mongol authority for…
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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…
