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For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire's aid. In... read more
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- Sultan Suleyman: Add a description of this character.
- Mehmet Ali
- Selim
- Ibrahim
- Kara Mustafa
- Murad Iii
- Mahmut
- Henry Holland
- Muslim
- Abdulhamid
- Orhan
- Pera
- Barbarossa
- Bayezit
- Osman
- Mary Wortley Montagu
- Byron
- Charles
- Ahmet Koprulu
- Gran Signor
- Edward Lear
- Busbecq
- Alemdar
- Rhodes
- Constantine
- Paul Rycaut
- Della Valle
- Urquhart
- Giustiniani
Setting & Locations edit
- Constantinople
- Istanbul
- Central Europe
- Islam
- Vienna
- Belgrade
- Hungary
- Anatolia
- Venice
- Edirne
- Egypt
- Balkans
- Russia
- Greece
- Austria
- Spain
- Black Sea
- Moldavia
- Serbia
- Albania
- France
- Wallachia
- Buda
- Ragusa
- Persia
- Bosphorus
- Rome
- Asia
- Bursa
- Bulgaria
- Italy
- Crete
- Crimea
- Athens
- Damascus
- Bosnia
- Arabia
- Thrace
- Malta
- Poland
- Sarajevo
- Smyrna
- Jerusalem
- Algiers
- Turkey
- Paris
- Lepanto
- Chios
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The great Eurasian steppe is a region of scrub and feathery grasses which stretches from the borders of China to the shore of the Black Sea.
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- Jason Goodwin (Author)
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Page Count: 368
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- Dewey: 956.1015
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