ottoman

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Turkey is now seeking the repatriation of other antiquities taken during the Ottoman era: an ancient marble torso called the "Old Fisherman" from Berlin, and dozens of Iznik tiles held at France's Louvre museum.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

The first decades of his life were spent under palace arrest in Istanbul, meant to keep him from vying for power—as Ottoman princes did, bloodily, in centuries past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

It was originally bought by Khalil Sherif Pasha, widely known as Khalil-Bey, an Ottoman statesman and diplomat posted in Paris and then Vienna.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

They lived in Ottoman Salonica, a melting-pot of Greeks, Turks, Jews, Albanians and cosmopolitan traders from all over Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

On the basis of a horoscope he had cast, Tycho declared that this event foretold the death of the Ottoman Sultan, Sulaiman, known as the Magnificent.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin