Empire1683 – 1922 · 239 years
Ottoman Empire
A Turkish dynasty that ruled the eastern Mediterranean for six centuries — from a tiny frontier emirate to the largest Islamic empire of the modern era.
What it was
The Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, conquered Egypt and the Hejaz in 1517, and at their 16th-century peak under Suleiman the Magnificent ruled from Algiers to Baghdad and from Yemen to the gates of Vienna. Defeat in WWI ended the dynasty in 1922.
Why it mattered
Borders the Ottomans drew, populations they moved, and institutions they built still define the politics of the Balkans, the Levant, and North Africa a century after their fall.
From Wikipedia
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centered in modern-day Turkey. It also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Wikipedia: Ottoman Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1815:Ottoman Empire
- SNAPSHOT1815
- MATCHEDOttoman Empire
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire388
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- World War I1914–18World-changing · 20M dead
- Armenian Genocide1915–23World-changing · 1.5M dead
- Crimean War1853–56Major conflict · 600K dead
- First Balkan War1912–13Major conflict · 500K dead
- Greek War of Independence1821–29Major conflict · 450K dead
- Balkan Wars1912–13Major conflict · 200K dead
- Gallipoli Campaign1915–16Major conflict · 130K dead
- Arab Revolt1916–18Major conflict · 50K dead
- First Egyptian-Ottoman War1831–33Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Greco-Turkish War1919–23Significant · 250K dead
- Russo-Ottoman War1768–74Significant · 200K dead
- Significant · 100K dead
- Significant · 100K dead
- Italo-Turkish War1911–12Significant · 100K dead
- French Invasion of Egypt1798–1801Significant · 50K dead
- Significant · 20K dead
- Significant
- Significant
- Mamluk-Ottoman War (1768-74)1768–74Significant
- Significant
- First Serbian Uprising1804–13Significant
- Significant
- Significant
+ 364 more in the atlas.
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1683 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Ottoman Empire (1683 – 1922). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/ottoman-late · Sources & methodology