Category: Ottoman Empire

Irish Potato Famine and Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid The Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) was an enormous disaster that brought about one million dying the dust from starvation and one million leaving their country, for the most part for North America. It’s extremely difficult to articulate how scarring this famine was... Read More →

A Brief History of Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire “The Exalted Ottoman State” was a state and caliphate that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th centuries in northwestern Anatolia... Read More →