The Ottoman Empire (French: Empire ottoman; Ottoman Turkish: دولت عليه عثمانيه, Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye; Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu / Osmanlı Devleti) was an empire which existed from approximately 1299 until its dissolution...
with this Eastern Empire becoming known asthe Byzantine Empire. It lasted all the way through to the year 1453 AD, until the capital of Constantinople was overrun by the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Emperor
The Ottoman Empire is named after its eponymous founder, the Emir Osman. "Osman" is from Arabic عُثْمَان, ʿUθmān, the name of the Third Caliph. We get /s/ in "Osman" because the /θ/ becomes /s/ in Persian, a language that, for secular purposes, had ...
the population records of the Ottoman Empire, spanning Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, remained inaccessible to the big microdata ecosystem due to their prolonged unavailability. This publication marks the inaugural release
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 France after the death of Louis XIV As a result of the fresh British perspective on the European balance of power, Anglo-French talks began, culminating in the 1713 Peace of Utrecht between Louis, Philip V of Spain, Anne of Great Britain, and the Dutch Republic. In 1714, after...
The map below, of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914, shows that Bosnia/ Herzegovina was controlled by Austria.Austria had annexed Bosnia in 1908, a move that was not popular with the Bosnian people.Franz Ferdinand decided to visit Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovnia, to make ...
Western Armenia on the Ottoman Empire map. John Pinkerton, 1818 / Geographicus Fine Antique Maps, Wikimedia Commons Owing to these events, the composition of the population had undergone (ever since the second half of the medieval period) a transformation so profound that the Armenians constitut...
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...
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