The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire (Repost)
Alan Palmer, "The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire"
English | ISBN: 0719549345, 1435108906, 156619847X | 1992 | EPUB | 320 pages | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0719549345, 1435108906, 156619847X | 1992 | EPUB | 320 pages | 3 MB
Like England's Charles II, the Ottoman Empire took "an unconscionable time dying." Since the seventeenth century, observers had been predicting the collapse of this so-called Sick Man of Europe, yet it survived all its rivals. As late as 1910, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Habsburgs, or Hohenzollerns, the House of Osman, which had allied itself with the Kaiser, was still recognized as an imperial dynasty during the peace conference following World War I.