The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by John Patrick Douglas Balfour, Lord Kinross

The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, Lord Kinross

638 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was s...

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