Outline of the Ottoman Empire

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Ottoman Empire:

Ottoman Empire – historical Muslim empire that lasted from c. 1299 to 1922. It was also known by its European contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey after the principal ethnic group.^[1] At its zenith from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries it controlled Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia and North Africa.

General history

Main periods

• Rise of the Ottoman Empire
• Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire
• Transformation of the Ottoman Empire
• Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman ancien régime
• Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire
• Defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
• Partition

Subperiods

• Ottoman Interregnum
• Sultanate of Women
• Köprülü era
• Tulip period
• Tanzimat era
• 1st Constitutional Era
• 2nd Constitutional Era

Historiography

• Ottoman Decline Thesis
• Ghaza thesis
• Renegade thesis
• Historiography of the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Structure of the Ottoman Empire

• Economic history of the Ottoman Empire
• State organization of the Ottoman Empire
• Social structure in the Ottoman Empire
• Culture of the Ottoman Empire
• Science and technology in the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Turkish language
• Demographics of the Ottoman Empire
• Religion in the Ottoman Empire
• Socioeconomics of the Ottoman enlargement era
• Millet system
• Ottoman Law
• Porte
• Tughra
• Line of succession to the Ottoman throne
• Military of the Ottoman Empire
• Enderun
• Janissary
• Sipahi
• Cebeci
• Nizam-ı Cedid Army
• Timar
• Nöker
• Ikta
• Eyalet
• Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire
• Sanjak
• Ağalık
• Kadılık
• Salname

Titles and posts

• Sultan
• Grand vizier
• Vizier
• Beylerbey
• Pasha
• Kazasker
• Nisanci
• Defterdar
• Reisülküttap
• Lala
• Aga
• Sanjak bey

History of Ottoman-ruled countries

• Albania
• Algeria
• Armenia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Greece
• Hungary
• Slovakia
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kosovo
• Libya
• North Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Palestine (Including Israel (q.v.))
• Serbia
• Syria
• Sudan
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• Russia

Ottoman Dynasty

The sultans

Some male members of the Ottoman house

• Alaeddin Pasha
• Süleyman Pasha
• Şehzade Halil
• Savcı Bey
• Süleyman Çelebi
• İsa Çelebi
• Musa Çelebi
• Mustafa Çelebi
• Küçük Mustafa
• Cem Sultan
• Şehzade Ahmet
• Şehzade Korkut
• Şehzade Mustafa
• Şehzade Bayezid
• Yusuf Izzettin Efendi
• Abdülmecid II

Mothers and other women assumed the title Valide Sultan

• Malhun Hatun
• Nilüfer Hatun
• Gülçiçek Hatun
• Devlet Hatun
• Emine Hatun
• Hüma Hatun
• Gülbahar Hatun
• Sittişah Hatun
• Gülbahar Hatun
• Hafsa Sultan
• Hürrem Sultan
• Nurbanu Sultan
• Safiye Sultan
• Handan Sultan
• Halime Sultan
• Mahfiruz Hatun
• Kösem Sultan
• Turhan Sultan
• Aşub Sultan
• Muazzez Sultan
• Gülnuş Sultan
• Saliha Sultan
• Şehsuvar Sultan
• Mihrişah Kadın
• Şermi Kadın
• Mihrişah Sultan
• Sineperver Sultan
• Nakşidil Sultan
• Bezmiâlem Sultan
• Pertevniyal Sultan
• Şevkefza Sultan
• Tirimüjgan Kadın
• Gülcemal Kadın
• Perestu Kadın
• Gülüstü Hanım

Some female members of the Ottoman house

• Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I)
• Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Suleiman I)
• Kaya Sultan
• Hatice Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)
• Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III)
• Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I)
• Adile Sultan
• Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)
• Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdülaziz)
• Fehime Sultan

Notable people

Some Crimean Khans^[2]

• Meñli I Giray
• Mehmed I Giray
• Sahib I Giray
• Devlet I Giray
• Mehmed IV Giray
• Islam III Giray
• Adil Giray
• Selim I Giray
• Devlet II Giray
• Şahin Giray

Some Grandviziers

Other notable viziers, governors and soldiers

• Black Musa
• Abaza Hasan Pasha
• Abaza Mehmed Pasha
• Gazi Evrenos
• Hacı İlbey
• Lala Şahin Pasha
• Zağanos Pasha
• Tiryaki Hasan Pasha
• Telli Hasan Pasha
• Özdemir Pasha
• Cezzar Ahmet Pasha
• Ali Pasha
• Muhammed Ali of Egypt
• Gazi Osman Pasha
• Ethem Pasha
• Ahmet Cemal
• Enver Pasha
• Ingiliz Mustafa

Sea men (Kaptan Pashas)

• Kemal Reis
• Piri Reis^[3]
• Oruç Reis
• Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha
• Aydın Reis
• Turgut Reis
• Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis
• Salih Reis
• Murat Reis the Elder
• Seydi Ali Reis^[4]
• Piyale Pasha
• Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis
• Müezzinzade Ali Pasha
• Kılıç Ali Pasha
• Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha
• Hasan Rami Pasha

Architects^[5]

• Atik Sinan
• Mimar Sinan
• Sedefkar Mehmed Agha
• Mimar Kasım

Artists (painter and calligrapher)

• Ahmed Karahisari
• Nakkaş Osman
• Hâfiz Osman
• Levni
• Osman Hamdi Bey
• Şeker Ahmet Paşa
• Hoca Ali Riza
• Halil Paşa

Musicians

• Hafız Post
• Buhurizade Itri
• Hampartsoum Limondjian
• Dede Efendi
• Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey
• Hacı Arif Bey
• Tatyos Efendi
• Tamburi Cemil Bey

Poets and authors

• Pir Sultan Abdal
• Fuzûlî
• Hayâlî
• Bâkî
• İncili Çavuş
• Nef'i
• Karacaoğlan
• Neşâtî
• Nedîm
• Dadaloğlu
• İbrahim Şinasi
• Agah Efendi
• Namık Kemal
• Tevfik Fikret
• Ömer Seyfettin

Men of letters and historians

• Aşıkpaşazade
• İdris-i Bitlisi
• Matrakçı Nasuh
• Hoca Sadeddin Efendi
• Mustafa Âlî
• Mustafa Selaniki
• Koçi Bey
• Katip Çelebi
• Evliya Çelebi
• İbrahim Peçevi
• Mustafa Naima
• Osman Aga of Timișoara
• İbrahim Müteferrika
• Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga
• Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi
• Ahmed Resmî Efendi
• Ahmet Cevdet Pasha
• Ziya Gökalp

Scientists (including Astrologist)

• Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu
• Ali Kuşçu
• Orban
• Takiyuddin
• Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi
• Lagari Hasan Çelebi^[6]
• Erzurumlu İbrahim Hakkı
• Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede

Some families

• Balyan family
• Çandarlı Family
• Köprülü family
• Levidis family
• Malkoçoğlu Family

Buildings

Palaces (İstanbul)

• Adile Sultan Palace
• Aynalıkavak Palace
• Beylerbeyi Palace
• Çırağan Palace
• Dolmabahçe Palace
• Esma Sultan Mansion
• Hatice Sultan Palace
• Ihlamur Palace
• Khedive Palace
• Küçüksu Palace
• Maslak Palace
• Topkapı Palace
• Yıldız Palace

Mosques (İstanbul)

• Atik Ali Pasha Mosque
• Atik Valide Mosque
• Beyazıt II Mosque
• Dolmabahçe Mosque
• Eyüp Sultan Mosque
• Fatih Mosque
• Firuz Ağa Mosque
• Handan Agha Mosque
• Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque
• Laleli Mosque
• Mihrimah Mosque
• Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar)
• Molla Çelebi Mosque
• The New Mosque
• Nuruosmaniye Mosque
• Nusretiye Mosque
• Ortaköy Mosque
• Pertevniyal Mosque
• Rüstem Pasha Mosque
• Sinan Pasha Mosque
• Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque
• Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)
• Süleymaniye Mosque
• Şehzade Mosque
• Şemsi Pasha Mosque
• Teşvikiye Mosque
• Yavuz Selim Mosque
• Yeni Valide Mosque
• Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque
• Zeynep Sultan Mosque

Mosques (Elsewhere)

• Bayezid I Mosque
• Bursa Grand Mosque
• İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque
• Murat Paşa Mosque
• Nasrullah Mosque
• Old Mosque
• Omer Pasha Mosque
• Selimiye Mosque
• Tekeli Mehmet Paşa Mosque
• Üç Şerefeli Mosque
• Ulucami
• Yeşil Mosque

Military

Wars

• Ottoman wars in Europe
• Ottoman wars in Asia
• Ottoman wars in Africa

Croatian–Ottoman Wars

• Long campaign (1443–1444)
• Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (c. 1493 – 1593)
• Long War (1593–1606)
• Great Turkish War (1662–1699)

Ottoman Persian Wars

• War of 1532–1555
• War of 1578–1590
• War of 1603–1618
• War of 1623–1639
• War of 1730–1735
• War of 1743–1746
• War of 1775–1776
• War of 1821–1823

Ottoman–Venetian Wars

• Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)
• The first Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)
• The second Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
• The third Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)
• The fourth Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)
• The fifth Ottoman–Venetian War or Cretan War (1645–1669)
• The sixth Ottoman–Venetian War or Morean War (1684–1699)
• The seventh and last Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)

Polish–Ottoman Wars

• Moldavian Magnate Wars
• Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621)
• Polish–Ottoman War (1633–1634)
• Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671)
• Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) (or "2nd Polish–Ottoman War")
• Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699) (or "3rd Polish–Ottoman War")

Russo-Turkish War

• Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)
• Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)
• Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)
• Russo Turkish War (1710)
• Russo-Turkish War (1735-1739)
• Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
• Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
• Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
• Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
• Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Other wars

• Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
• Ottoman–Persian Wars
• History of the Serbian–Turkish wars
• Ottoman–Habsburg wars
• Indian Ocean campaigns
• Italian War of 1542–1546
• Italo-Turkish War
• Balkan Wars
• World War I

Sieges

• Bursa (1326)
• İznik (1331)
• İzmit (1333)
• Edirne (1361)
• Tarnovo (1393)
• İstanbul (1422)
• Thessalonica (1422)
• Svetigrad (1448)
• İstanbul (1453)
• Belgrade (1456)
• Kruje (1478)
• Rhodes (1480)
• Otranto (1481)
• Cairo (1517)
• Rhodes (1522)
• Algiers (1529)
• Vienna (1529)
• Tunis (1534)
• Baghdat (1534)
• Corfu (1537)
• Diu (1538)
• Aden (1538)
• Castelnuovo (1539)
• Buda (1541)
• Esztergom (1543)
• Van (1547)
• Tripoli (1551)
• Eger(1552)
• Oran (1556)
• Oran (1563)
• Malta (1565)
• Szigetvar (1566)
• Tunis (1574)
• Baghdad (1638)
• Candia (1669)
• Vienna (1683)
• Belgrade (1739)

Battles (before World War 1)

Battles of the First World War

Caucasus Campaign

• Köprüköy (Bergmann)
• Sarikamis
• Ardahan
• Malazgirt (Manzikert)
• Kara Kilise
• Erzurum
• Trabzon
• Bitlis
• Erzincan
• Sardarapat
• Abaran
• Karakilisa
• Baku

Mesopotamian campaign

• Fao– Basra
• Qurna
• Es Sinn
• Ctesiphon
• 1st Kut
• Shiekh Sa'ad
• Wadi
• Hanna
• Dujaila
• 2nd Kut
• Baghdad
• Samarra offensive
• Ramadi
• Khan Baghdadi
• Sharqat

Sinai and Palestine Campaign

• Kanal (Suez)
• Romani
• Magdhaba
• Refah (Rafa)
• 1st Gaza
• 2nd Gaza
• El Buggar
• Birüşebi (Beersheba)
• 3rd Gaza
• Mughar Ridge
• Kudüs(Jerusalem)
• Abu Tellul
• Megiddo

Gallipoli Campaign

• Çanakkale deniz (Naval operations)
• Arıburnu (Anzac Cove)
• Helles
• 1.Kirte (Krithia)
• 2.Kirte (Krithia)
• 3.Kirte (Krithia)
• Kumkale
• Sığındere (Gully Ravine)
• Anafartalar (Sari Bair)
• Kirte Bağları (Krithia Vineyard)
• Kanlısırt (Lone Pine)
• Suvla
• Kılışbayır (The Nek)
• Conk Bayırı (Chunuk Bair)
• Yusufçuk Tepe (Scimitar Hill)
• Hill 60

Treaties

Revolts and notable events

• Sheikh Bedrettin
• Şahkulu
• Jelali revolts
• Beylerbeyi Event
• Abaza rebellion
• Atmeydanı Incident
• Çınar Incident
• Edirne event
• Patrona Halil
• Kabakçı Mustafa
• Charter of Alliance
• The Auspicious Incident
• Serbian revolt
• Greek revolt
• Bulgarian revolt
• Arab revolt
• Atçalı Kel Mehmet
• 31 March Incident
• Babıali raid

Diplomacy

• French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
• Polish Jagiellon ambassadors to the Ottoman Empire

Lists

• List of the Ottoman battles in which the sultan participated
• Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent
• List of campaigns of Mehmed the Conqueror
• Ports of the Ottoman Empire
• List of foreigners who were in the service of the Ottoman Empire

See also

• Wikilala

Notes

External links

• Ottoman Text Archive Project – University of Washington
• Ottoman Empire in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
• The Ottoman Empire: Resources – University of Michigan
• The Ottoman Empire: A Chronological Outline
• World Civilizations: The Ottomans A comprehensive site that covers much about the Ottoman state and government
• Ottoman History Podcast An internet radio broadcast dedicated to the history, culture and society of the Ottoman Empire and Middle East
• Turkish Oral Narrative
• The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature A bi-lingual site (English version) presenting a user-submissable database of references to theses, books, articles, papers and research-projects
• Osmanlı Edebiyatı Çalışmaları Bibliyografyası Veritabanı Turkish version of The Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature
• Information about Ottomans
• "Forced population transfers in early Ottoman imperial policy". http://www.unm.edu/~phooper/thesis_condensed.pdf.  (566 KB) – covers the period 1300–1600
• The Sakıp Sabancı Collection of Ottoman Calligraphy
• Ottomans History Blog
• Turkey in the First World War
• Ottoman Navy and Navigation
• Engravings of Ottoman Empire – HQ image gallery
• Ottoman Studies Resources in Internet

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