The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate ... in battle at the gates of Vienna, in the 16th and 17th centuries, sparing then ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...