NYC Is Full of Echoes From the Ottoman Empire. ... And the Ottoman Empire survived, ... Alan’s gift for reframing history feels a bit like looking at a world map upside-down.

The book includes over eighty illustrations, maps and textboxes. Covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia, to its dissolution after the First World War in ...

The Ottoman Empire, which at the time this map was drawn included much of the Balkans and the Middle East, used a version of the Turkish language written in a slightly modified Arabic script.

Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell. 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 Ottoman Empire dominated much of Europe, Asia, and Africa - but why did it never extend its reach to the Americas? In ...

That is to say, they aren’t maps of the Ottoman Empire, which was substantially larger, or the entire Muslim world or the Turkic world. They are maps of Turkey, just a little bigger.

Gingeras, a historian of the Middle East who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat ...

Istanbul. The very name sounds foreign, exotic. It is a city astride two continents -- Europe and Asia -- and has been a bridge between the two for more than two millennia. Its strategic location ...