they were victims of an age-old regional warfare which underpinned an equally ancient but persistent trade in slavery reaching across North and East Africa, the Ottoman Empire and eventually the ...

This is a name used by Moscow propaganda since the 19th century for the territories that the Russian Empire annexed after wars with the Ottoman Empire ... from chattel slavery to Russian and ...

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Despite his popularity, he was removed in a military coup in 1889, which replaced the empire with a republic. These days, the imperial era is tarnished by its long association with slavery ... North ...

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Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, ...

But historians, who agree that Christianity was present in Kosovo long before the Ottoman Empire brought Islam, question the thinking behind the movement. Image Ethnic Albanian supporters of a ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

EXCLUSIVE: Reports for years have indicated that religious intolerance is on the rise around the globe in the face of increasing authoritarian rule and the continued spread of Islamic extremism ...