11 July was the bicentenary of an Ottoman firman appointing Mehmed Ali (more commonly transliterated from Arabic as Muhammad ... Egypt forty years earlier from a remote corner of the Ottoman ...

Ottoman sovereignty over the Muslim holy city of Mecca began in 1517 after the conquest of the Mamluk Empire under Sultan ... vassal and ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, went to war against ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ottoman History and World Wars continues with a video on why the Arabs revolted against the Ottomans before and during the Great ...

An obituary by Lord Eversley, who wrote the widely read book, The Turkish Empire, on the decline ... Ottoman territory ceded to the Russians. The French occupied Tunisia in 1881 and the British in ...