The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699,9781841765693

The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699

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ISBN13: 9781841765693
ISBN10: 1841765694
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2003-10-22
Publisher(s): Osprey Publishing
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Summary

The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history. Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the throne. At its height under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Empire became the most powerful state in the world - a multi-national, multilingual empire that stretched from Vienna to the upper Arab peninsula. With Suleiman's death began the gradual decline to the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 in which the Ottoman Empire lost much of its European territory. This volume covers the main campaigns and the part played by such elite troops as the Janissaries and the Sipahis, as well as exploring the social and economic impact of the conquests.

Author Biography

Stephen Turnbull is the world's leading English language authority on medieval Japan and the samurai. He has travelled extensively in the far east, particularly in Japan and Korea and is the author of ‘The Samurai - A Military History’ and Men-at-Arms 86: ‘Samurai Armies 1550-1615’.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(9)
Chronology 9(1)
Background to war
The rise of the Ottomans
10(7)
Warring sides
The Ottoman Army
17(5)
Outbreak
The advance against Europe 1365--1402
22(8)
The fighting
Ottoman success 1422--1606
30(38)
Portrait of a soldier
Konstantin Mihailovic, the Serbian Janissary
68(5)
The world around war
Terror and toleration
73(7)
Portrait of a civilian
Grand Vizier Mehmet Koprulu
80(2)
How the war ended
Osman II to Murad IV 1617--48
82(8)
Conclusion and consequences
The Ottoman decline 1683--99
90(2)
Glossary 92(1)
Further reading 93(1)
Index 94

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