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Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, [j] historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, [22] [23] was an imperial realm [k] that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Yanıkdağ, Yücel: Ottoman Empire/Middle East , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-12-19. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10522.
Total dead: 7,000,000+. Pictorial map of the Middle East in 1915. The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 30 October 1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire (including the majority of Kurdish tribes, a relative majority of Arabs, and some Iranian peoples), with some assistance from the ...
Based on previously unused sources including contemporary Ottoman books, journals and newspapers; Will appeal to military historians and historians of the Ottoman Empire Table of Contents. Introduction: pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism 1. The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan wars 2. 1914: war with Greece? 3.
Jan 10, 2020 · Mostafa Minawi, a historian at Cornell University, believes the Ottoman Empire had the potential to evolve into a modern multi-ethnic, multi-lingual federal state. Instead, he argues, World War I ...
The Sinai and Palestinian Campaign ended on October 30th, 1918 when the Ottoman government surrendered. In total, the Ottoman Empire suffered nearly 190,000 casualties and nearly 30,000 deaths in the conflict. In the end, the Ottoman Empire suffered 975,000 casualties in all of World War I, including 325,000 deaths.
The Ottoman Empire was named for Osman I (1259–1326), a Turkish Muslim prince in Bithynia who conquered neighbouring regions once held by the Seljūq dynasty and founded his own ruling line c. 1300. Ottoman troops first invaded Europe in 1345, sweeping through the Balkans. Though defeated by Timur in 1402, by 1453 the Ottomans, under Mehmed ...
