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Episode Transcript: Episode 27 Reimagining Constantinople, War with Serbia & Siege of Novo Brdo

Episode Transcript: Episode 27 Reimagining Constantinople, War with Serbia & Siege of Novo Brdo

Episode Transcript "Siege of Novo Brdo and Re-imagining Constantinople" Episode 27

God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World, Alan Mikhail

God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World, Alan Mikhail

🇹🇷Ottoman Empire Podcast 🇹🇷 The very BEST way to support the show is to join the Patreon Click Here ➡️ Empires Podcast the Ottomans Pat...

Source Extract: "Memoirs of a Janissary" Part 2, Konstantin Mihailovic

Source Extract: "Memoirs of a Janissary" Part 2, Konstantin Mihailovic

HOW EMPEROR MACHOMET DECEIVED THE GREEK EMPEROR UNDER THE ABOVE-MENTIONED TRUCE "Having assembled an army, Emperor Machomet (this would be M...

Coming Collaboration: Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa/شکیلات مخصوصه Ottoman Secret Police

Coming Collaboration: Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa/شکیلات مخصوصه Ottoman Secret Police

Collaboration in progress with Secret Police Podcast creator and host, Jack Johannessen. Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa in Ottoman Turkish: شکیلات مخصوص...

Transcript: Episode 26, Part 1 "Strategic Consequences for the Ottoman Empire after the Conquest of Constantinople 1453"

Transcript: Episode 26, Part 1 "Strategic Consequences for the Ottoman Empire after the Conquest of Constantinople 1453"

The basic view of the Islamic East is that they saw the Ottomans at heterodox at best and outright pagan Turkish heretics at worst. The Ott...

Lori Davis, Guest Blogger: "Hürrem Sultan: From Slave to Queen"

Lori Davis, Guest Blogger: "Hürrem Sultan: From Slave to Queen"

As Roxelana’s children grew older, the dangers of flouting tradition became fully apparent. Typically, young princes were sent to gov...

Topkapı Sarayı- Ottoman Imperial Palace or Seraglio New Seat of Empire

Topkapı Sarayı- Ottoman Imperial Palace or Seraglio New Seat of Empire

"The Topkapı Palace (Turkish: Topkapı Sarayı ; [2] Ottoman Turkish: طوپقپو سرايى , romanized:  ṭopḳapu sarāyı , lit.  'Cannon G...

Ottoman Turkish Fairytales, Series 1 "The Piece of Liver" author.. unknown

Ottoman Turkish Fairytales, Series 1 "The Piece of Liver" author.. unknown

Once upon a time there was an old woman who felt she would very much like to have a piece of liver, so she gave a girl two or three pence, ...

SOURCE EXTRACT: PART 2 of "A Peace to End all Peace" by Fromkin

SOURCE EXTRACT: PART 2 of "A Peace to End all Peace" by Fromkin

"Kitchener had governed Egypt, a country officially still part of the Ottoman Empire, but which had in effect been and independent country ...