"The Spanish took Tripoli from the Berbers, the Knights of St John took it from the Spanish, the Ottomans took it from the Knights... The Berbers called Tripoli 'the Bride of the Sea'. And, if I can believe my Foe, my mother called it 'home'."

OUT NOW: https://t.co/4piNACWkV1

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My picture, 1963 drawing of Art Director, Juan Eugene Ramos as a "pasha" a high ranking Ottoman Empire leader, in NYC by artist the renowned fashion illustrator. Image in fellow artist & longstanding friend of Antonio & Juan book "Antonio's People"

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the pirate tma au by inspired me so i drew a couple jons bc i love pirates and im weak! first one is tatum’s design, the second one is a middle eastern pirate approach based on some paintings of ottoman pirates. i lov middle eastern historical dress so!!! had to!!!

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Fellow librarians and scholars - help me out on this one please. A scholar is looking for writings by the Ottoman scholar Şânizâde Atâullah Efendi in Arabic, or mentionings of his name and work in Arabic sources. With Dar al-Kutub closed these are hard to locate. (see below 👇)

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1395 Battle of Rovine ends with a tactical victory of the Wallachian army of Mircea cel Batran (the elder) against the much larger Ottoman army led by Sultan Bayezid I.

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Finally got around to 3/5 of my Palaiologos series. This guy is supposed to be a rank and file henchman but I think I accidentally make him look too cool for that. Had fun bringing back some of the byzantine/ottoman inspiration though.

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(ok yesterday) in 1771, Bouboulina, heroine of Greece, was born in a Constantinople prison. Her fearless leadership -from the prow of her very own warship!- would lead her nation out of Ottoman rule & into independence! Hear her incredible story here: https://t.co/7BIEcC9643

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askeri, 1500'ler. An Ottoman soldier, 1500's.

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The Drăgaica,a traditional Midsummer fair, has been held for centuries near the Buzau river in Wallachia (paused between 1806-29 because Ottomans burned the city).It is said that whoever did chores on the main day on the 24th of June would be struck by lighting.#FolkloreThursday

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The Wounded Montenegrin (Ranjeni Crnogorac) is an oil painting by the Serbian artist Paja Jovanović depicting a wounded youth surrounded by peasants in traditional clothing, likely during the Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1876–78. (Matica Srpska gallery)

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For I am about to present the paper "Catch me if you can! Tracing the late Ottoman ideosphere through network analysis and stylometry of the Arabic periodical press" at . Slides: https://t.co/I2JyCZl0KZ
pre-print: https://t.co/o7KWWrAkTi

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We love the illustrations in this volume of Ottoman costumes (MS 603680) produced in 1789. Here are some of our favourites https://t.co/OGKElu81kq

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Check out my newest Wikimedia Commons upload project from Houghton digitization: 22 handcolored portraits of Ottoman Sultans from a 1734 history. https://t.co/jGF51Jm9TD

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kaiserreich ottoman empire

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Ethnic composition maps of parts of Ottoman Empire, based on 1881 Ottoman state census.
Maps are work of u/resitpasa (Reddit) posted in r/MapPorn.

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Ottomanbucks ☕️ 🌝

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