The Second Bulgarian Empire, once a powerful force in the Balkans, ultimately fell after centuries of warfare, internal strife, and foreign invasions. This video examines the key factors behind ...

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 ...

The Ottoman Empire. Share full article. June 28, 1863. Credit... The New York Times Archives. ... would fall to pieces, like a castle of cards, on the first shock of the assailant, ...

A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire slipped into the mists of history. A mighty realm that had survived for centuries and straddled three continents had reached the end of the road, ceasing to ...

Gingeras, a historian of the Middle East who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat ...

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 ...