economic competition because of new trade routes, and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution all destabilized the once peerless empire. By the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was derisively ...

marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of Ottoman control over key trade routes linking Europe with Asia. This effectively blocked Europeans from using traditional overland ...

when the taxes and tolls of the burgeoning Ottoman Empire deterred almost all of the remaining trade along the traditional Silk Road routes. Specialists say that the fall of the Silk Road forced ...

His new book is GOD’S SHADOW: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire ... and thus dominated the globe’s most important trade routes overland between Europe and Asia and by sea through the Persian ...

He controlled the middle of the world, dominated trade routes between the Mediterranean ... Economically, the Ottoman Empire was a powerhouse through its sheer size and the shrewd leadership ...

And throughout the renaissance, the Ottomans became the biggest trade partner of western Europe. The walls of the city of Vienna marked the apex of the Ottoman’s empire power and the beginnings ...

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 ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import ...