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HistoryIbrahim Pasha crushes the Ottoman army at Nezib, while the Ottoman fleet commander surrenders his fleet to Muhammad Ali...
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HistoryEurope forces a new firman on the Ottoman Sultan: Muhammad Ali keeps Egypt as a hereditary possession, but Ibrahim's dea...
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HistoryThe Crimean War drags Europe in on the Ottomans' side, while bankruptcy, unrest and a fatwa bring down Sultan Abdulaziz,...
The Complete Ottoman State – The Beginning and the Fall 42
HistoryAbdul Hamid II inherited a bankrupt, restless empire, gave it its first constitution and parliament, then dissolved it,...
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HistoryCrete's drive for union with Greece, the Suez Canal, the British occupation of Egypt, the Hamidian massacres of Armenian...
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HistoryAbdul Hamid starves and crushes the Albanians, creates the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem to open Palestine to Jewish settle...
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HistoryThe Committee of Union and Progress forces Abdul Hamid II to restore the constitution in 1908, then deposes him as Bulga...
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HistoryAnwar Pasha drags the Ottoman Empire into World War I, hunts the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, and launches the fo...
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HistoryThe Armenian genocide escalates into full extermination, while Sarah Aaronsohn, lover of Jamal Pasha, spies for the Brit...
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HistoryThe finale of the Ottoman Empire series: a scathing reckoning with the empire's legacy, its scholars, its conquests and...
The Complete Caliphate Series 1
HistoryHow the question of who would succeed the Prophet split the early Muslim community, and how the events at the Saqifat Ba...
The Complete Caliphate Series 2
HistoryThree Muslim groups rise against Abu Bakr's state, the Kharijites are introduced, and the first caliph dies of a slow po...