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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...