Armenian Genocide - Ottoman Empire, 1915, Ethnic Cleansing: The battle of Sarikamis in 1915 was the worst Ottoman defeat of the war. The Young Turk government blamed Armenian treachery. Disarmed Armenian soldiers were murdered by Ottoman troops, the firs
The expansion of the Ottoman EmpireMap showing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from about 1300 to 1700. The empire reached its greatest extent between 1683 and 1699.(more) Ottoman Empire historical empire, Eurasia and Africa Written by ...
Süleimān I then added areas that had never been permanent parts of the Roman Empire, like Iraq and Hungary. Picking up the conflict with the Safavids, Süleimān I for the first time since Alexander the Great removed Iraq from Iranian possession (the map above shows the pre-Safavid Aq Qoyu...
DarinaMartykánová and MeltemKocamanALand of Opportunities:Foreign Engineersinthe Ottoman EmpireAbstract:Hundreds of foreign engineers worked in the vast lands of the OttomanEmpire from the eighteenth to the earlytwentieth century. These engineers andthe works they carried out are worth exploring from ...
Hejaz Railway, railroad between Damascus, Syria, and Medina (now in Saudi Arabia), one of the principal railroads of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Its main line was constructed in 1900–08, ostensibly to facilitate pilgrimages to the Muslims’ holy places