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Territorial changes of the Ottoman Empire 1920. The Treaty of Sèvres (August 10, 1920) was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises.
A cartoon depicting the Ottoman Empire under threat. The Ottoman Empire before World War I was in a state of rapid transition and decay. Through the medieval period and into the modern era, the Ottoman Empire had been one of the world’s largest imperial powers. In the 17th century the Muslim Ottomans ruled vast swathes of eastern Europe ...
Apr 25, 2024 · The Ottoman Empire disintegrated and was partitioned after its defeat in World War I. The empire had already been in decline for centuries, struggling to maintain a bloated bureaucracy or a centralized administrative structure after various attempts at reform.
- The Ottoman Empire was founded in Anatolia, the location of modern-day Turkey. Originating in Söğüt (near Bursa, Turkey), the Ottoman dynasty expan...
- The Ottoman Empire began at the very end of the 13th century with a series of raids from Turkic warriors (known as ghazis) led by Osman I, a prince...
- After the peak of Ottoman rule under Süleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire struggled to maintain its bloated bureaucracy...
See a map of the Middle East in 1914, in the last days of the Ottoman Empire just before the First World War.
Ethnic map of the Ottoman Empire in 1917. Black = Bulgars and Turks, Red = Greeks, Light yellow = Armenians, Blue = Kurds, Orange = Lazes, Dark Yellow = Arabs, Green = Nestorians
Map of Ottoman Empire in 1914. You can also download a hi-res copy as a pdf (8.7mbs). This map shows the boundaries and major cities of the Ottoman Empire at the start of the First World War in 1914. Map produced by Geographx with research assistance from Damien Fenton and Caroline Lord.
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The Ottoman Empire entered World War I after the Goeben and Breslau incident, in which it gave safe harbour to two German ships that were fleeing British ships.
