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Hilal Nur Kuyruk
Hilal is a historian specializing in Medieval Middle East and Central Asia. After completing her Bachelor of International Relations, Hilal moved to Turkey, where she worked as a teacher. In 2024, she completed a Master of Arts, specializing in History, from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Hilal’s main interests are the history of gender, textiles, and fashion in Anatolia. In her spare time, she likes to discuss Ottoman history and reproduce historically accurate Ottoman clothing on her YouTube channel, Historian Hilly.
Education:La Trobe University, 2024MA Arts (History)La Trobe University, 2017BA International RelationsExpertise:Articles by Hilal Nur Kuyruk
Learn how Kösem Sultan, an enslaved concubine of the 17th century, became the most powerful woman in Ottoman history.
In the first centuries of their rule, the Turks built great feats of Ottoman architecture around Turkey and the Balkans.
How did Bayezid, fourth sultan of the mighty Ottoman Empire, lose his life in captivity at the court of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur the “Lame”?
The Battle of Didgori, fought between the Georgian and Seljuk Empires in 1121 CE, saw Georgia retake Tbilisi and the beginning of the Georgian Golden Age.
The Seljuks, a steppe nomadic Turkic people, laid the foundations of Turkish rule in Anatolia long before the Ottoman principality rose to power.
What made the almost 600-year-long Ottoman Empire so unique?