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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

โœ Scribed by Goodwin, Jason

Book ID
109023077
Publisher
Random House
Year
2010
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
8151115211

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โœฆ Synopsis

The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total.

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