Even from the air they looked like ramparts between fortress Europe and the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire.

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 Mohamedans form but a very small portion of the inhabitants of European Turkey, and in the event of a general insurrection of the Christian population, would be quite unequal to cope single ...

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 ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established. The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe.

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...

The Ottomans became one of the key subjects of the 18th and 19th century aesthetic and scientific movement known as Orientalism. Crucially, the Ottoman Empire was in part a European empire. Its reach ...

It would be quite the thing to let distaste for populism drive Europe into a second, more shambolic, Ottoman Empire.

For centuries the Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey’s predecessor, used maritime routes for not only travel, but also military expeditions. Its capital, Constantinople, was a major center of trade ...

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 ...