Hoping to restore its former power, the Ottoman Empire joined World War I — but instead found ruin. This video explores how poor leadership, outdated tactics, and catastrophic defeats in the Caucasus, ...

The central bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire adapted the empire's economic, monetary, and military institutions to changing circumstances with a degree of flexibility and pragmatism that permitted ...

Once rulers of three continents, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I already weakened and divided. This video explores how ...

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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 ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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