Thus, the Turkish invasion and the hardships of daily life under Ottoman rule found Orthodoxy unprepared.

In 1805 the Servians revolted, and secured temporary independence, only to again come under the Ottoman rule.

Modern Bulgarian, except for the Turkish words introduced into it later during the Ottoman rule, is purely Slavonic.

Some 1.5 million Armenians were killed under Ottoman rule between 1915 and 1923.

Greece would never have shaken off Turkish Ottoman rule without the military assistance of Britain, France and Russia, historians say.

It seemed he was referring to something Fahir had said earlier about the long subjection of Mesopotamia to Ottoman rule.

Tizani can still recite the Turkish oath of allegiance to the Sultan, as taught to his father under Ottoman rule.

Exemptions from this barbarous practice were offered only to select communities which somehow contributed to Ottoman rule in the Balkan.

For many Hungarians, however, the sweetest reminder of 150 years of Ottoman rule may be an unsightly fungus called botrytis cinerea.

Spielman acknowledged that the intervening 18 centuries after the destruction of the Temple saw extended Arab, Crusader and Ottoman rule in Jerusalem.

Some 1.5 million Armenians were killed under Ottoman rule in the eight years between 1915 and 1923.

Late in the city's period under Ottoman rule, the monument was also used as a place of worship by Sufi Muslim Whirling Dervishes.

After 300 years of Ottoman rule its architecture, from hovels to ramshackle palaces, speaks, even in decay, of private wealth and public grandeur.

I found myself increasingly in sympathy with his aspirations, his detestation of Ottoman rule, his hopes of freedom and prosperity for his people.

Under Ottoman rule in the 18th and 19th centuries alone, the Yazidis were subject to 72 genocidal massacres.

A great struggle broke out against the Ottoman rule, and it roused the passionate sympathy of the lovers of freedom all over the world.