The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events ... Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the ...

This day marked the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire, a dissolution that would bring great suffering and chaos ... and develops a new case study for understanding the political reactions of ...

On a tiny island in a lake is the last remaining official Turkish territory in Syria. It held the grave of Suleyman Shah, the ...

From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and ...

Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual fall ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine ... By the 19th century, though, the empire had entered into terminal decline and was frequently referred to as the "sick man of Europe." ...

The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire ...