Private and Royal Life in the Ottoman Palace by İlber OrtaylıRequirements: .ePUB reader, 14 MBOverview: Topkapi Palace was the official and primary residence of the Ottoman sultans for almost four centuries of their 624-year reign. This illustrated guide to Topkapi Palace (the heart of a vast transcontinental empire until the mid-nineteenth century) explores Ottoman history, […]
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo CasaleRequirements: .ePUB reader, 19.2 MBOverview: In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in […]
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina by Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe)Requirements: .PDF/.ePUB reader, 63 mbOverview: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominent members of the […]
The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged by Virginia AksanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13 MBOverview: Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Now called […]
The Ottoman Empire’s Greatest Sultans: The Lives and Legacies of Osman I, Mehmed II, and Suleiman the Magnificent by Charles River EditorsRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 212 MBOverview: In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital […]