However, by the second half of the 1800s, it was clear that Europe had outclassed its old Ottoman rivals militarily and technologically. In order to persist as a state, the Ottoman Empire had to ...

But the connection between the Greek islands and Ottoman... the Ottoman Empire in Turkey is that the Ottoman Empire controlled Greece and the Greek islands, um, up until Greek independence ...

The century of transition from the mid-1800s to the end of World War II saw the rapid expansion ... In the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire was already mired in many of the challenges that would soon ...