“The Russian Menace”:“The Russian menace: a Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877.” An English cartoon from 1877 showing Russia as a monstrous octopus devouring neighbouring lands, especially the Ottoman Empire. During much of the 19th century, Russia had considerable influence over the Ott...
the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire, and later submerged fully into Russia. Two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20...
This lavishly illustrated catalog of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travelers and voyagers....
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In this paper, we analyse the nineteenth-century Ottoman cartographic activities and map production in the European parts of their empire. Already weakened by centuries of wars, the Ottoman Empire, in its late phase of territorial regression, had to find a way to compensate the absence of its ...
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 ...
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. Ottoman Empire historical empire, Eurasia and Africa Written by Stanford Jay Shaw ...
A map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in 117 AD The time of powerful Roman emperors ruling over vast swathes of land are likely to be the most common image of the Romans which first comes to mind, but it was in fact the third type ofgovernmentthat the ancient Romans utilized...
Zeta was more often referred to as Crna Gora. Large portions fell under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1496 to 1878 (Between 1454 (For Niksic) and 1878 for Old Herzegovina). Parts were controlled by Venice and the First French Empire and Austria-Hungary, its successors. From 1515 ...
Map showing the Ottoman Empire, 1914 (United States Military Academy) http-equiv="content-type"