The Turkish Empire

Five Years of Cholera Prevalence in the Turkish Empire

even approximately?known, has undoubtedly been very great. The behaviour of the epidemic in different parts of the country and during the varying seasons of these two years has offered many points of interest to the observer; and it will be the object of the present paper to place before the members of the Epidemiological Society the facts of this two years' prevalence of cholera, so far as the...

The British Empire Exhibition

Globish and the empire.

Empire, Islam and the postcolonial

Sports of the Byzantine Empire

From the fourth century A.D. until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the people of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire participated in a wide range of sports and physical recreations. Most of these activities were inherited from Greek and Roman civilizations, or were introduced through contacts with Asia Minor and Crusading Europe. Some sport forms disappeared after a few centuries, while o...