The Ottoman Empire dominated much of Europe, Asia, and Africa - but why did it never extend its reach to the Americas? In ...

Crucially, the Ottoman Empire was in part a European empire. ... A map of the Ottoman Empire in 1683, and Turkey today. Peter Hermes Furian/Shutterstock 4.

To put things in perspective, the exhibition displays a color-coded map of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from ...

GOD’S SHADOW Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World By Alan Mikhail. Coming down to Mexico’s Pacific shore one summer day in 1573, a merchant named Pero Ximénez ...

A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been relegated to the annals of history, with little ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922 ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30. A s it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather ...

This book stands out prominently from the mass of ephemeral political writings on the Near East, for it is a serious scholarly study of one of the most important phases of European activity in the ...