Ottoman Empire

I’m curious to know how the readers will like Gottfried von Kalmbach …  A more dissolute vagabond than Gottfried never weaved his drunken way across the pages of a popular magazine: wastrel, drunkard, gambler, whore-monger, renegade, mercenary, plunderer, thief, rogue, rascal – I never created a character whose creation I enjoyed more. — Letter to…

The decline of the Ottoman Empire has been a subject of fascination for historians, in spite of attempts to halt it. This decline began in the latter portion of the 19th century and is thought to be caused by internal political and social conflicts within the empire, as well as its economic condition. Consequently, European…

The Ottoman Empire was an empire which was created by Turkish tribes in the region of Anatolia. Considered to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, it spanned more than 600 years and only ended in 1922 due to the replacement by the Turkish Republic and…

Before the 1700s, three of the major imperiums were called the Gunpowder Empires: the Ottomans of Turkey, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. Although the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires had strong bureaucratisms and economic prosperity, they besides had absolute swayers who denied their citizens basic civil rights. One of the strengths…

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, sometimes referred to as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was an empire founded by Turkic tribes under Osman in north-western Anatolia in 1299. With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmet II in 1453, the Ottoman state was transformed into an empire. During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular…

Gottfried was already on his way to the embrasures. He too had heard before the terrible soul-shaking shout of the charging Janizaries. Suleyman meant to waste no time on the city that barred him from helpless Europe. He meant to crush its frail walls in one storm. The bashi-bazouki, the irregulars, died like flies to…

The Janissaries of the Ottoman/Turkish EmpireThe Janissaries was an elite corp. in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century to 1826. Highly respected for their military prowess in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Janissaries became a powerful force to be reckoned with on the battlefield, and in government administrations….

“You dog,” said the emir, “there is war in the wind and the Archduke has need of your sword.” “Devil eat the Archduke,” answered Gombuk; “Zapolya is a dog because he stood aside at Mohacz and let us, his comrades, be cut to pieces, but Ferdinand is a dog too. When I am penniless I…

Abstract             In the latter part of the third century A.D., the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western regions.  While the eastern provinces prospered, its western counterpart was weakened by attacks of Germanic tribes. Progressively, the center of power in the Empire shifted from Rome to the eastern Mediterranean.  Prior to the fall…

There the mercenary Venetians refused us ships and it sickened my very entrails to see our chiefs go down on their knees to those merchant swine. They promised us ships at last but they set such a high price that we could not pay. None of us had any money, else we had never started…