The longest-lived of the great Islamic empires, founded by Osman I in Anatolia and ultimately ruling from the Balkans to the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa for over six centuries, until the Grand National Assembly in Ankara abolished the sultanate in 1922.
Dissolved at the conclusion of the Turkish War of Independence when the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished by the Grand National Assembly on 1 November 1922 CE, with the last sultan Mehmed VI departing Istanbul; the Ottoman state was formally succeeded by the Republic of Turkey, proclaimed on 29 October 1923 CE.
The atlas holds 18 border frames for Ottoman Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1299 · 1352 · 1362 · 1446 · 1496 · 1515 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675 · 1708 · 1749 · 1799 · 1832 · 1848 · 1878 · 1890 · 1907 · 1917.
A sweeping, accessible narrative history of the Ottoman Empire from founding to dissolution, the standard popular account.
Caroline Finkel's acclaimed single-volume history of the Ottoman Empire from Osman's foundation to its dissolution.
Murder among the sultan’s miniaturists in 1590s Istanbul.
Four centuries of Ottoman Bosnia watched from a single bridge.