The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Ottoman Empire, which at the ...

Following the Turco-Mongolian statecraft of ensuring safe and rapid movement of information, armies, and merchants through the lands, Ottoman state paid close attention to the network of roads and ...

Thanks to a popular Turkish television series beamed around the world, this once-forgotten town is experiencing a tourism boom.

A former lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling AK Party has released a map of “Greater Turkey” that goes back to the era of the Seljuq Empire and its defeat of the Byzantine Empire in the 1071 Battle of ...