But one empire that sometimes gets forgotten, outside Turkey, is the Ottoman. On the 100th anniversary ... to the walls of the city of Vienna. The height of the empire’s power came in the ...

Comparison of the British Empire (red) and the Mongol empire (blue) when each was at its height (at different times ... into the complex bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire. In 1258 the Mongols ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest ... of World War I and paid the price of being stripped of all their land except Turkey itself. Nevertheless, the cultural impact of Ottoman ...

A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire slipped into the mists of history ... as a new “attempt to occupy the last piece of our land, which shrank to one-fifth [of its size] in the short ...

At its height, in the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire held the largest population of Jews in the world, an estimated 150,000 people, compared to the 75,000 estimated to be in Poland and Ukraine ...

At its height, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most ethnically ... losing almost half of its land from the middle of the nineteenth century to the eve of the first world war.

One hundred years on from the official end of their empire ... of the Ottoman state. An 18th century depiction of Istanbul (The Walter Art Museum) They were given money and land to help them ...

(Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) Review by Vanessa H. Larson A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been ...

Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to as ...