Turkey; terms and phrases; Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size

Examines Ottoman and republican Turkish social and labour history from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1950s.

A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.

In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the house