Ottoman Architecture

The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) in Istanbul, built between 1609-1616 CE, is one of the most magnificent examples of Ottoman architecture and a masterpiece of Islamic architectural achievement.

The westernmost region of sustained Muslim presence in Europe. Ottoman rule from 1463 until the Austro-Hungarian occupation of 1878 produced a distinctive Bosniak Muslim culture that joined Ottoman traditions to indigenous Balkan ones.

Roxelana (c. 1502-1558), known as Hürrem Sultan, rose from slavery to become Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's legal wife and the most powerful woman in Ottoman history.