Istanbul

Keral then discusses secularisation as a means of creating a sense of nationhood, suggesting that Ataturk 's principles are most clear in his ‘homeland ideology’. Keral uses quotes from Ataturk’s speeches as evidence for this idea, the crux of which is that ‘Old Turkey [is] like a dungeon and it ought to be a paradise’, loved by all Turkish. This aligns with ideas of Shinto secular, in that the aim was to create a sense of nationhood and to unify Japan, facilitated through the nation-state, in…

Ottoman Empire It was an empire created in 1299 by Turks. Spielvogel noted that the Ottoman Empire has occupied southeastern Europe in the seventeenth century, while it has lost several piece of territory, such as Slovenia and Hungary, during its expansion to the Austrian Empire (661). It experienced the further downfall by the beginning of the 18th century. With its gradually destruction, many European countries expressed strong interests on its territory. It should be studied today because the…

Egypt has an expansive, colorful, and intriguing history by any metric but this is especially true of its history of collective violence. Egypt has played an important role in history starting back in ancient times with a mighty empire and lasting all the way to the present day with a current propensity towards military authoritarian rule. As with any country, especially one that’s been around in one form or another for so long, there have been many periods of turmoil and violence along the way…

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The Ottoman Empire rise thanks to the weakness of the Western Europeans and the Islamic East, The Ottoman Empire took advantage of the conflicts they had, and used that opportunity to expand in the empire. They also took control of Silk Road, a network of trade router from Far East to Europe and Africa that helped in the trade of tea, silk, spices, coffee, cotton. Therefore, Europe had to circumnavigate the Ottoman Empire to found a way to take control again. Christopher Columbus and his…

The Ottoman Empire One of the great empires of history is the Ottoman Empire. At the height of its power it controlled the entire Middle East and North Africa as well as parts of Eastern Europe. Greece has a long tradition of independence from the time of Alexander the Great. Even earlier the city states of Greece were fiercely independent and even withstood the assault of the Persian King Xersis. Greeks Lose their Independence After that classical age the Greeks lost their independence, as…

By 1300, the Byzantine Empire was declining, and the Mongols destroyed the Turks. The Turks would emerge and eventually become an immense empire stretching across three continents. The empires existing at that time were the Inca in South America, the Ming in China, and the Timurids in Central Asia. The Ottoman Empire reached its peak size during the reign of Suleyman the Lawgiver. Suleyman accomplished a change in the legal system which was divided into two facets, and had a large influence on…

The Siege of Constantinople in 1453 represented the fall of a great empire and the expansion of a new one. This month long battle pitted the invading Ottoman Empire against the long standing Byzantium Empire that had held the city since its construction in the 4th century. This battle had enormous repercussions throughout the historical world and marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire and the spread of the Islamic religion into Europe. Constantinople represented the capital of the…

In today 's culture, when we hear about the World Wars of the 20th Century, we hear about the lives that were lost in combat. We also hear about the infamous Holocaust, where more than 6 million Jews, among others, died during World War II. One such event, like the Holocaust, occurred during World War I. This event is known as “The Forgotten Genocide”, and it took place within the Ottoman Empire. It is estimated that during the early 20th Century, over 1.5 million Christian Armenians in that…

The Allies established in the city their own police and courts. Except of the Bureau of International Police, which was located on the Golden Horn seafront, each European Power had its own police department (British crocker, French and Italian section) in their zone of control. Americans, having neither a district to control, nor its own army in the city, dispatched their police patrols by evenings to gather from the streets drunken American sailors. Ottoman Police had permanent stations…