The Ottoman Empire. Six Centuries from Rise to Decline. XIV-XX centuries.

The famous English writer-historian John Patrick Balfour recreates the history of the Ottoman Empire in the pages of his book from its founding at the turn of the XIII-XIV centuries to its dissolution in 1923. An authoritative orientalist known in the academic community as Lord Kinross traces the formation of the civilization of warlike nomads and the rapid rise of the Ottoman state to the greatest empire in world history, which stretched from the Danube to the Nile and from Algeria to the Caspian Sea, where arts flourished, sciences and crafts developed, philosophical thought did not fade, and theology prospered. The author vividly and brightly describes the everyday life of the Ottoman Turks, creates accurate and plausible portraits of sultans, their wives, and heirs, allowing a glimpse behind the patterned gates of the harem. The historian pays special attention to the confrontation of the Glorious Porte with the Habsburg Empire and Russia, which, along with the liberation movement in the Balkans and mistakes in domestic policy, became the reasons for the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the proclamation of the Turkish Republic.