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The Ottoman Empire was a large state located in the Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe that was founded in 1299 and lasted until 1922. The Ottoman Empire was the longest-lasting of the Islamic empires, lasting for over 600 years. During its reign, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful political forces in the world, and was the largest and most powerful empire in its day. The Ottoman Empire was the center of a large trading network, and was home to a large number of ethnic and religious groups. In this section, you will find a variety of articles and videos about the Ottoman Empire, its history, its culture, its people, and its legacy.
The year 2022 marks a century since the downfall of the Ottoman empire, more than six centuries after it began and grew into one of the most durable empires in history. Ryan Gingeras chronicles the rising tide of sectarianism that drove this once mighty imperium into extinction...
<p>Nationalist forces in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia want to use historians to reach a definitive conclusion to debates over the territory's ethnic and national identity. But from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the fall of Communism, those questions have been complex, difficult, and ambiguous. </p>
Having ousted the Ottomans from Palestine in 1917, Britain administered a territory that was already a tinderbox of tensions between Arabs and Jews. Matthew Hughes explores the bloody end of the Palestine Mandate and the emergence of the State of Israel