What sparked the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I? In this episode, Kings and Generals dives into the complex causes behind the Arab uprising — from long-standing ...

The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, or New Atlas, was published in Istanbul in 1803 by the Ottoman Military Engineering School Press — the first atlas to be printed in the Muslim world. The atlas ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. ... the early modern (16th to 18th centuries) ...

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler .

Both authors emphasize that this common history has relevance not only to those in the modern Turkish republic but also to the diverse peoples across the former Ottoman lands. The empire’s ...

The Ottoman Empire ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century, decades before it took control of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), in 1453.