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 empire’s motto, "The Eternal State" or Devleti-i Ebed-muddet, reveals the level of Ottoman ambition ... diplomat describing England in the 1500s, and that during the second siege of Vienna ...

The Ottoman Turks had swept out of Central Asia during the 14th century, conquering nearly all of modern-day Turkey, and then set about expanding their empire in the Arab Middle East and into Europe.

Researchers have begun looking at thousands of the world’s oldest Ottoman documents that paint a picture of what life was like in the early days of the Empire. In a medieval monastery on the ...