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 foundation at the turn of the 13th-14th centuries to its dissolution in 1923. An authoritative orientalist, known in the scientific community as Lord Kinross, traces the development 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 the arts flourished, sciences and crafts developed, philosophical thought did not fade, and theology thrived. The author vividly and brightly narrates the everyday life of the Turks-Ottomans, creates accurate and plausible portraits of sultans, their wives and heirs, and allows a glimpse behind the ornate gates of the harem. The historian pays special attention to the confrontation of the Sublime Porte with the Habsburg Empire and Russia, which, along with the liberation movement in the Balkans and mistakes in domestic policy, led to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the proclamation of the Turkish Republic.