Сontents ・Blue Mosque ・Hagia Sophia ・Basilica ... including the well-known Suleiman the Magnificent and his concubine Roksolana. The palace keeps the former luxury of sultanic life and ...

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised ...

The Mesir Macunu festival of Manisa, Turkey, commemorates the recovery of Hafsa Sultan, mother of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was cured of ... the top of the minaret and the domes of the Sultan ...