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...
Few men have acquired so evil a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as “Zedzed.” Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist,...
The Ottomans first invaded Istanbul, then named Constantinople in 1453, and from this sprawling city, commanded respect and admiration. Nearly 500 years later, the Ottoman Empire crumbled, but the sultans built many iconic Ottoman palaces that still stand today. Some are open for public ...
The number of travellers from Europe to Turkey, and especially İstanbul, increased dramatically as travel conditions improved pursuant to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. However, the capital city of the Ottoman Empire was not equipped with adequate accommodations to host these visitors...
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...
Ottoman Empire American imperialism Protestant missionaries Introduction By the outbreak of World War I, Euro-American empires sought to expand their influence among still sovereign Muslim-ruled polities in the Ottoman Empire, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. In the case of Britain, they deftly used...
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。
During the Ottoman period, discussions and legal regulations about the existence and rights of the animals in society go back to the formation period of the Empire. However, these regulations were mostly for animals such as horses, donkeys, mules, and oxen, which provided numerous benefits to pe...
’ 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 ...