The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Ottoman Empire, which at the ...
In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, ...
One hundred years on from the official end of their empire on 1 November 1922, it is time to look afresh at the Ottomans. Lasting over six centuries, from 1299 till 1922, spanning the three continents ...