The Ottoman Empire, which at the time this map was drawn included much of the Balkans and the Middle East, used a version of the Turkish language written in a slightly modified Arabic script.

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ottoman Empire. Share full article. June 28, 1863. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 28, 1863, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

The Ottoman imprint, from Europe to India, the patterns, the design sense, the architecture, lay in everyone's historical consciousness, just below the surface. They just hadn't focused on it.

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