The decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century took place at about the same time as the decline of the Qing Dynasty in China.

Twenty... first dynasty?

It's a matter of dynasty.

Are you living in Chosun dynasty?

That was of the 18th dynasty.

No, twentieth, but a delta dynasty.

Both of these are Song Dynasty block printed editions.

He's carrying a shipment in a Tang Dynasty horse.

Only one declared item. An antique Tang Dynasty horse.

I'm just the soninlaw, not part of the dynasty.

Intrigue and murder among 16th century Ottoman court painters.

Or immediately afterward, the Han Dynasty, still 2,000 years ago.

He was the founder of the fourth dynasty, you know.

In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called meddah.

In this tomb from the Han dynasty, a book was found.

Until the year 1500, almost all Persians were Sunni Muslims. Then, Shah Ismail the first Shah and the founder of the Safavid Dynasty began a brutal policy of forcing Persian Muslims to become Shia, in order to distinguish his iteration of Persia s empire from the more powerful Constantinople based and fervently Sunni Ottoman caliphate.

3 March, Bulgaria apos s Liberation from the Ottoman Yoke, National Holiday

The story of this drama occurred at the year Jingkang of Song Dynasty

The Ottoman Empire's not that far from Europe, but there's no scientific revolution there.

The military s incorporation into the state was most prominent in the Ottoman Empire, whose rulers created a new type of military force that drew its manpower mostly from Islamic ruled parts of Europe. These Janissaries (Christian boys conscripted to serve in Ottoman infantry units) were either recruited from Europe or abducted from countries under Ottoman control.

In the Ming Dynasty (early 15th century) the centre of Beijing was the Forbidden City.

As part of the European tour, Barcelona's Ming Dynasty Heritage Exhibition will continue until early October.

My friend in Hong Kong said you were a top collector of Tang Dynasty in this country.

In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized.

Being accustomed to kidnapping, the Japanese imperialists abducted even the royal family members of the Li dynasty without any hesitation.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

You make it sound as if the son of the hotdog dynasty had to marry the daughter of the mustard king.

And you know what, it was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners by the people in the rest of the world like Ibrahim Muteferrika, an Ottoman official, the man who introduced printing, very belatedly, to the Ottoman Empire who said in a book published in 1731, Why do Christian nations which were so weak in the past compared with Muslim nations begin to dominate so many lands in modern times and even defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies?

It is generally believed that Buddhism first came to China in 67 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Bangkok, or Krung Thep, meaning City of Angels , was constructed in 1782, or 222 years ago, by King Rama I of the Chakri dynasty.

Likewise, the current turmoil in Turkey is, at least in part, a consequence of neo Ottoman overreach by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s government. In seeking to establish the type of regional influence that Turks have not had since Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey, Erdoğan has fallen prey to some of the Ottoman regime s hubris.

Turkey s successes have deep roots in governmental capacity and its people s skills, reflecting decades of investment and centuries of history dating back to Ottoman times.

Two brothers are at war over one of Victoria's biggest real estate empires, worth more than 500 million, four decades after their Italian family founded the dynasty.

Now those of you who have been to Istanbul have probably seen Topkapi Palace, which was the residence of Ottoman sultans for more than 400 years.

But they weren't kind of surprised I traveled around the world to visit them, because in their eyes he is, after all, a famous Qing dynasty military hero.

This was what China looked like with the victory of the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. at the end of the warring state period the birth of modern China.

And that's why the Ottoman Empire in its last decades turned into a proto democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and freedom was a very important political value at the time.

When Mao Zedong took power in 1949, his immediate goal was to re establish the greater China of the Qing Dynasty (1644 1912), insisting that the Manchu led empire was the permanent and enduring China. But, while the assault on the Qing Dynasty by foreign powers is a historical fact, the notion that there has been one enduring China struggling against avaricious outsiders across several millennia is false and self serving.

Politically, it is a well known fact that North Korea has been sustained by a totalitarian system which has now taken the shape of the world apos s first communist dynasty.

Torn between its two objectives, China placed a higher priority on preserving the Kim family dynasty. That choice gave rise to a seeming paradox North Korea gained surprisingly powerful influence over China.

It is obvious that long term preservation of cultural heritage in Kosovo, which includes Serbian Orthodox, Ottoman Islamic, Catholic and vernacular sites, must become an increasing priority in the coming months.

Recently, Turkey provided access to the Ottoman archives, inviting researchers, including Armenian scholars, to come and get to know the historical documents dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century.

The neglect and abandonment of land will allow the Israeli authorities to seize the land under the terms of an old Ottoman law and to hand it over to the settlers.

Instead, Turkey s role inspired reservations among Egyptians after all, the Ottoman Empire had ruled over Egypt. And, on the Turkish side, there was a sense of superiority vis à vis the Arab world.

So, will a Turkish Summer be the first, if not the main, strategic result of the Arab Spring ? Is the Middle East faced with a neo Ottoman Turkey s irresistible rise to regional power?