How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the ...

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 grievances ...

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 its ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922 ... What really matters is that the empire did fall. Or did it? By way of continuity, some historians note that the empire was itself reforming ...

It is time to “breathe new life into a subject that is often treated as relatively obscure”, writes Gingeras, because the fall of the Ottoman Empire “is not merely a Turkish story ...

has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat wider-angle “Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922.” ...

Turkey today is what remains of the Ottoman Empire. That period of time, often seen as the country’s glory days, continues to influence all areas of Turkish culture today. 36.

They call him an Islamist because he focused his efforts on creating a pan-Islamic identity across the Ottoman Empire instead of one rooted in Turkish identity. But despite these criticisms ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books ... from the Persian up to the Ottoman Empire. Although empire is a shape-shifting phenomenon, all these ...

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