Ottoman Empire

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Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922
The Long End of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)
Süleyman the Magnificent
A long line of migrants in India
Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza
A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war
The Greco-Turkish War
Armenian protesters in April 2018.
Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution
Views of the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.
A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece
Scene in Ukraine
Ukraine, In a Nutshell
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.
On the Armenian Genocide
Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide
Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
A ship moves along the Bosporus through Istanbul, part of the only sea route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi painting by Theodoros Vryzakis.
An Historic Question: Over There or Over Here?