OttomanStatedid notalsodisregardthisissueand a veryshortperiodafterthedevelopments in Europe; it has startedtaking an interest in railways.Theconstruction of railwayswhich has begun in themid of nineteenthcentury, acceleratedgraduallyand asignificantrailwayinfrastructurewashandeddowntoRepublicanTurkey. Inthis...
Ottoman Empire alsoTurkish Empire A vast Turkish sultanate of southwest Asia, northeast Africa, and southeast Europe. It was founded in the 1200s by Osman I and ruled by his descendants until its dissolution after World War I. Originally a small state controlled by Ottoman or Osmanli Turks, it...
This is not only a significant gap in the literature of the war, but is highly misleading, not least because such troops were recruited from the culturally and linguistically different peoples who made up what was, in 1914, still a huge and diverse empire。
Maarif: transformation of a concept in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth centuryDuring the Ottoman period, 'science (ilim, pl. ulm)', 'knowledge (marifet, pl. maarif)' and 'technique (fen, pl. f眉nn)' ... A Yıldız,M Gündüz - 《History of Education》 ...
The Constantinople slave market in 1838. The painter, William Allen, claimed to have painted the scene from life, though certainly he was as inclined as most western Christian gentlemen of the day to look down on the Ottoman Empire and its people as intrinsically alien and inferior. The horror...
’ From the correspondence it is clear that ‘it was the presence of the Imperial Museum that rendered the archaeological remains in the Empire a part of the Ottoman state’s cultural property, or, in the Ottoman bureaucratic vernacular, “the valuable produce of the [Ottoman] land of plent ...
When the Turks conquered the southern and central parts of Hungary, and these territories became part of the Ottoman Empire, the town survived, but it became extinct during the fights against the Turks in the 17th century. WikiMatrix According to the most popular legend, during the Ottoman ti...
Bondsof Enslavementinthe IslamicMiddleEast(NewHaven, CT,2007); EveTrouttPowell,Tell Thisin myMemory. Storiesof EnslavementfromEgypt,SudanandtheOttomanEmpire(Stanford, 2012);Paul Auchterlonie,“Su rvivingasaSlave:The EconomicRealityof Lifeas aEuropeanSlave in OttomanNorthAfrica,1600–1820”,Maghreb ...
As Donald Quataert has stated, historians of the Ottoman Empire have with more obstinacy than in other areas of study avoided covering non-elitist history, such as a history of labour, the peasantry, the urban poor, slaves or the marginalized. This is due less to the existing difficulties ...
OttomanFrom December 1908 until autumn 1914,the British Naval Mission to the Ottoman empire worked 'strenuously, though for the most part futilely' to encourage improvements in their host's navy.1 The officers in charge of this mission were in turn Rear-Admirals Douglas Gamble (1909-10), Hugh...