The Ottoman Empire once ruled three continents, but its decline was long, complex, and filled with internal conflict.

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In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...

A man walks near the Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Built between 1463 and 1470, it was designed to “project the political authority and power of the court,” Diana Darke writes. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) ...

In late October, 1914, two Ottoman warships departed Istanbul, cutting northeast through the Black Sea to stage a surprise attack on the Russian seacoast. The mission by the battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan ...

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