In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...
The pasha emerges as a rare Ottoman intellectual and statesman who sought to preserve the empire through order, merit and a ...
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How the Ottoman Empire’s collapse in the Balkans unleashed one of Europe’s most dangerous crises
The First Balkan War marked a decisive collapse of Ottoman power in Europe as a loose regional alliance launched a ...
The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Ottoman Empire, which at the ...
The Ottoman Empire defeated mighty rivals and expanded across three continents, but Persia remained the prize it could never fully claim. Time after time, Ottoman armies pushed east, won major ...
"Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art From the Khalili Collection," opening today at the Asian Art Museum, brings attention to a diverse multicultural civilization that produced its fair share of ...
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 ...
What Finkel calls the "old" narrative of the Ottoman Empire is simple to relate: "it rose, declined, and fell." An exotic parade of salacious sultans, grand viziers and duplicitous eunuchs inhabit the ...
WHEN a Serb gunman shot an Austrian archduke in the summer of 1914, the nations of Europe tumbled into war with all the grace of bowling pins. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, whose ally Russia ...
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