Overview

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.

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Author:   Stephen Turnbull (Author)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Osprey Publishing
Edition:   Marshall Cavendish and Revised ed.
Volume:   No. 62
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781841765693

ISBN 10:   1841765694
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   22 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

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Essential Histories are remarkably effective in presenting military events in the wider contexts of the new military history.

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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’.

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