Sultans of Rome: The Turkish World Expansion

by Warwick Ball

It has become conventional to think of the Turkish capture of Constantinople in 1453 as an Asiatic conquest. The Turks originated in Asia--it is true--but Constantinople was conquered from the west not the east: the Ottomans became a European power before they became a Middle Eastern one and remained a primarily European power. Indeed, the Middle East and even most of Anatolia itself was conquered from Europe. This demonstrates that it was no sudden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156656848X
• ISBN13: 9781566568487
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Olive Branch Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"