"Empire of the ... a term coined in the 19th century by Russian czar Nicholas I, who should have known something about empires on the verge of collapse -- the Ottoman Empire finally expired ...

The Ottomans became one of the key subjects of the 18th and 19th century aesthetic and scientific movement known as Orientalism. Crucially, the Ottoman Empire was in part a European empire.

By the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was derisively called the “sick man of Europe” for its dwindling territory, economic decline, and increasing dependence on the rest of Europe.

Larson A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote ... and an illustrated 19th-century map of the aqueducts supplying Istanbul’s extensive water system.

The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never ... along with the empire itself. The Ottomans barely saw out the 19th century, and when the Turkish state revived, in the 1920s under Kemal ...

Generally known as the Anthropocene, this era is widely considered to have emerged in the 19th century on the heels ... formed the heartland of the Ottoman Empire and is roughly coterminous ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than ...

The Ottomans became one of the key subjects of the 18th and 19th century aesthetic and scientific movement known as Orientalism. Crucially, the Ottoman Empire was in part a European empire. Its reach ...