The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

Indeed, for some scholars, as Ryan Gingeras reminds us in The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, the collapse of the empire “began with its defeat before Vienna in 1683”. During the last century ...

And in that vacuum rose the Islamic Ottoman Empire ... Vienna in 1683 by a last-minute Polish intervention; it continued to exist until 1922. Was 500 years of brutal carnage and war with the ...

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler.

His account seeks to dispel the idea that the undoing of the empire loomed as an inevitable outcome by the time the Ottomans conceded in the Great War, showing instead how what followed was a ...

15th-16th Centuries - Ottoman Empire expands into Asia and Africa ... Tuscany and Savoy. 1683-99 - Great Turkish War between the Ottomans and the Holy League: triggered by the Ottoman siege ...

1. Tensions among religious groups helped instigate the Crimean War. From 1517 to 1917, the largely Islamic Ottoman Empire controlled Jerusalem. Two of the area’s religious minorities ...

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler.

15th-16th Centuries - Ottoman Empire expands into Asia and Africa ... Tuscany and Savoy. 1683-99 - Great Turkish War between the Ottomans and the Holy League: triggered by the Ottoman siege ...