Map showing the Ottoman Empire, 1914 (United States Military Academy) http-equiv="content-type"
At the zenith of its power the Ottoman Empire included the areas of Turkey, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia, Jordon, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and parts of North Africa and Arabian Peninsula which the region’s map highlight. [more…] Pergamon (τὸ Πέργαμον...
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-8451-1122-9. ^ Bluche 1986, p. 439. ^ Keay 1994, pp. 201–204. ^ Pagani 2001, p. 182. ^ Sullivan, Michael (1989). The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art. University of California Press. ...
Germany maintains cordial relations and close economic ties with its former Central Powers allies of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria, who have not expressed an active interest in joining the Reichspakt. They also treat Bulgaria as a bastion of security in the southern Balkan Pen...
Turkish map of Palestine, Sinai and Suez Canal Map of Palestine and Sinai Turkish map of Syria and Palestine Since 1882, Britain had maintained control over Egypt's government, despite the latter's its nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire. In 1914, Egypt threw its support behind the Brit...
Map of the Mesopotamian theatre of war The Ottoman High Command, unprepared for a significant offensive in this theatre, saw the complete deployment of XII Corps to Syria by November 1914. Simultaneously, the headquarters and the 37th Division of XIII Corps set out for the Caucasus. The once...
Throughout its history, Turkey’s background and culture have been influenced by numerous cultures, such as Armenians, Romans, and Greeks. The country was a part of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over numerous nations across Asia, Europe, and Africa for six centuries. ...
Historical Map of South & Southwest Asia (6 November 1914 - Outbreak of the Great War: The end of July saw the outbreak of World War I in Europe, pitting Russia, France, and Britain against Germany. At first the Ottoman Empire declared neutrality, but te
The Ottoman empire’s treatment of its minorities had prompted international intervention in Greece in 1827, in the Lebanon in 1860, and several times later. The Chinese empire’s complicity in the Boxer siege of the Peking embassies in 1900 had prompted the despatch of a full-scale ...
The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, 1807–1924(more) The Ottoman Empire sided with Germany in World War I (1914–18); postwar treaties dissolved the empire, and in 1922 the sultanate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who proclaimed the Republic of Turkey the following year.Ottoman Em...