"(Subscription required)The Ottoman empire
Feb 23rd 2006
From The Economist print edition
MORE than 80 years after being supplanted by the Turkish republic, the Ottoman empire will not die. Bloodshed in the Balkans; Arab and Kurdish nationalism across the Middle East; Turcophobia in Armenia; all are echoes of a dynasty that survived for 600 years and whose dominions extended from the Danube through the Levant to Algiers. Few historians have dared compress the story of this extraordinary enterprise into a single volume.…"
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