Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire and its Control Over

The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairytale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pashas, and ill-fated harem women. The true stories of genuine sultans and princes are a bit more complicated and no less exciting.

Incredible facts about this empire still surprise anyone who starts discovering those stories. You'll find out that, for quite a while, this Islamic state was effectively ruled by women, and that's just the beginning.

In The Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire and its Control Over Much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, you will discover topics such as:

• The First Sultan
• The Conqueror
• The Just and the Resolute
• The Magnificent
• Friend
• The Power of Harem
• The Sultanate of Women
• The Supreme Valide
• Husbands and Sons
• Grandest of the Grand
• Flower Power: the Age of Tulips
• Transformation
• A Step toward Modernization
• The Reorganization
• The Last Absolute Ruler
• The End of the Ottoman Empire
• And much, much more!