The Ottoman Empire

ottoman empire  The Ottoman empire once stretched from Vienna to Cairo, an expert explains its power  In the 18th century, when the expansion of the Ottoman Empire through conquest came to a halt, forced migration took the form of settling nomadic tribes in

The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an Ottoman Women Valide Sultan: Mother Sultan: or Queen Mother; The valide sultan was perhaps the most important position in the Ottoman

The Ottoman Empire was founded c 1299 by Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Asia Minor just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople  The Ottoman Empire, an Islamic superpower, ruled much of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe between the 14th and early 20th