The Sublime Porte: Six Centuries of the Ottoman Empire
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The Sublime Porte: Six Centuries of the Ottoman Empire
14.99 €
Full of secrets and contradictions, the Ottoman Empire stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers along the border between East and West. It had a colossal impact on the history of Europe, although it was completely different from it. Comparable in scale to the Roman Empire, by the end of the 16th century it occupied three continents and united under its rule many languages and peoples: its subjects were Albanians, Armenians, Greeks and many others. The fall of Constantinople and wars with the Russian Empire, religion and art, the first nomadic settlements of the Seljuks and the creation of the Turkish Republic, Osman I and Ataturk - in an effort to understand this amazing country, the French historian Olivier Bouquet created a detailed portrait of the Sublime Porte and six centuries of its history.
"How did the sultans manage to spread Islam in Central and Eastern Europe, territories to which it was completely alien, by instilling fear in Vienna and instilling horror in the papal legates? How did they manage to survive for almost half a millennium? How did they manage to create a state that became the last imperial formation in the Eastern Mediterranean and the embodiment of Muslim universalism? These are the questions that the Ottoman era, which has become part of the long history of Islamic peoples, asks" (Olivier Bouquet).
"How did the sultans manage to spread Islam in Central and Eastern Europe, territories to which it was completely alien, by instilling fear in Vienna and instilling horror in the papal legates? How did they manage to survive for almost half a millennium? How did they manage to create a state that became the last imperial formation in the Eastern Mediterranean and the embodiment of Muslim universalism? These are the questions that the Ottoman era, which has become part of the long history of Islamic peoples, asks" (Olivier Bouquet).
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