It would be underestimating Empress of the East to consider it merely a biography of Roxelana (circa 1502-1558), the slave girl from Ruthenia — then ruled by Poland and now a part of Ukraine — who ...
A Ukrainian girl is kidnapped from her village at the age of 15, taken as a slave to the Ottoman Empire, but ends up marrying Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The story is 500 years old, and often ...
A cobblestone footpath down Mumbai’s Fort area, leads you straight to Hurrem’s Turkish Baklava Confectionery, a culinary gem that introduces the city to the delightful world of Turkish treats. As the ...