Throughout the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was dubbed “the sick man of Europe” as it struggled with internal decay, ...

During the Ottoman Empire, people used devices called "zarfs" to hold their coffee cups. Here's what to know about this ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates efforts by the Hamidian-era Ottoman state to rely on its document-based internal mobility control regime, the mürûr ...

The rule of law is a widely used term in scholarship on Ottoman legal reforms. Nevertheless, the actual meaning of this notion is rarely clarified in the writing on the late Ottoman Empire although ...

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 a ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For centuries empires were the dominant form of political organisation. In the west there is some degree of familiarity with ...

Office: Andrews Hall 207A Phone: (757) 221-2527 Email: [[ssayek]] Areas of Specialization : Modern architecture and urbanism; geography, cultural landscape studies, and planning history; the Ottoman ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...