The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras's superb new book explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Ryan Gingeras od authora Ryan Gingeras a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Ryan Gingeras |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
368 |
Rok vydání |
2024 |
Nakladatelství |
Penguin Books |