“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... Nearby, in a late-17th-century copy of “Portrait of Mehmed I” (by a painter from the school of Paolo Veronese), the ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...

The small bronze object depicts Mehmed II, a man regarded as one of the greatest Ottoman sultans, who oversaw an empire that stretched from central Europe into Egypt and large parts of the Arabian ...

My doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. James Baldwin and Dr. Markus Daechsel, will investigate diplomatic relations and the main political conflicts between the British Empire and the ...