“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous, successive empires, the Byzantine (330-1453 ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a ...