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 th

Second edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at t

This title examines the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the church'