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World War I and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Hoping to restore its former power, the Ottoman Empire joined World War I — but instead found ruin. This video explores how ...
For over three centuries, Russia and the Ottoman Empire fought a dozen wars — and the results were almost always the same.
It was October 26, 1912 when freedom bells rang in Thessaloniki, as the Greek army liberated the city from Ottoman rule.
The Battle of Navarino, one of the most important battles in Greece’s War of Independence, took place on October 20, 1827.
The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the Gulf ...
I was born in this city and graduated from here. Constantly we were told that this city was freed by the British till somebody from the Historical Society knocked at my door one day and said that they ...
Catastrophe of Smyrna in 1922. Earlier this week, the Greek-American organisation, the Eastern Mediterranean Business and Cultural Alliance (EMBCA), held its third Forum on the Greek Genocide--a ...