In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

It would be quite the thing to let distaste for populism drive Europe into a second, more shambolic, Ottoman Empire. As several of my interlocutors suggested, this time, the sick man of Europe is ...