In the 19th Century, Turkestan became a scene of conflict between great states. In this period, Russia and Britain competed each other because of economic resources and important trade routes of Turkestan. Bukhara Emirate ...

The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) have significant transition period features in Ottoman history. There are many internal dynamics which make the Balkan Wars significant. One of these dynamics is the province of Edirne. Edirne ...

BÖLÜK, Recep. A Study On The Köl Tigin Inscription İn Comparasion With The Chinese Sources, Postgraduate Thesis, Ankara, 2018. The Köl Tigin Inscription, erected by the khagan of the Second Turkic Khaganate Bilge Khagan ...

The 18th century is a period when significant changes were taking place in Ottoman Empire. The losses experienced in the late 17th century caused the groups ruling the empire in the 18th century to evaluate developments ...

After the internal crisis that started in 1600 and the first reforms under the Sultan Ahmed III, between the end of the 1700s and the beginning of the 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began to feel the need of a change in its ...

Kizilbash/Alevi communities in Anatolia caught the attention of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Abdülhamid II after a long time. Anxiety over issues of security of the empire, centralization, the politics of Islamic ...

Shamanism is one of the ancient belief of Turks that still have not completed the term. Religious rituals, sacred places, accessories and many other symbols compose an extensive belief pattern. Shamanism, however, does not ...

This thesis is about a General Raimondo Montecuccoli of Habsburg Army who played a big role in 1660-1664 Ottomans-Habsburgs relations and fighted against the Ottomans as a general of Habsburg allied army in the Battle of ...

My thesis, named “ the chief Astrologer Hüseyin Efendi and the 3 sultans period” has significance for there aren’t many studies on this subject. The sultan’s and the society’s point of view considered through Astrologer ...

The Ottomans stayed in the stage of history for over six hundred years and were rather skilful in gradually building a bureaucratic, centralized and a rational monarchy adaptable to actual political circumstances. One of ...