2006-04-22T10:00:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ce3/191951-m.jpgCaroline Finkel talked about her book Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire ...

The Ottoman Empire ruled vast territories for centuries, but by the 19th and early 20th centuries, internal corruption, ...

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Note on spelling, names, maps and quotations -- Guide to Ottoman titles -- Maps -- First among equals -- Dynasty divided -- Imperial vision -- Sultan of ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their expansion. The next few decades saw many turbulent changes, among which a war with ...

Ertugrul Osman, who might have ruled the Ottoman Empire from a palace in Istanbul but instead spent most of his life in a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, died Wednesday night in Istanbul. He was 97.

PanARMENIAN.Net - The history of one nation - Turks - has been always studied in Turkey. Sometimes, there is an impression that no other nation ever lived in this country, a Turkish historian and ...

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 ...