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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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. Or White?
Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. A reasonable question, if you have been following the…
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1453 Overture
Everyone remembers two of these. The third is the one worth knowing. Tchaikovsky’s has cannon…
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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…
