When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established ... It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and ...

The British and the French made a mess of reconstructing the Middle East out of the debris of the Ottoman empire, including ...

More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely ... was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of ...

This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire's southern border against the threat of the Ottoman Empire ...

In the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire was already mired in many of the challenges ... people became factors in that trade -- whether as laborers being "traded" across borders, as brokers, investors, ...