Ottoman Lands: 100 Years Ago And Now The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th century and grew to dominate not just the Anatolian peninsula, but large swaths of ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established ... It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... To put things in perspective, the exhibition displays a color-coded map of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from ...