The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay

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G. Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley. The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay

The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF MAPS

PART I. THE GROWTH OF EMPIRE

OTHMAN. 1288-1326

II. ORCHAN. 1326-59

III. MURAD I. 1359-89

1. The Conquests in Thrace

2. The Conquests in Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Serbia

3. Murad’s Acquisitions in Asia Minor

IV. BAYEZID I. 1389-1403

V. MAHOMET I. 1413-21

VI. MURAD II. 1421-51

VII. MAHOMET II, ‘THE CONQUEROR’ 1451-81

VIII. BAYEZID II. 1481-1512

IX. SELIM I. 1512-20

X. SOLYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT. 1520-66

XI. GRAND VIZIER SOKOLLI. 1566-78

PART II THE DECAY OF EMPIRE

XII. THE RULE OF SULTANAS. 1578-1656

XIII. THE KIUPRILI VIZIERS. 1656-1702

XIV. TO THE TREATY OF PASSAROWITCH. 1702-18

XV. TO THE TREATY OF BELGRADE. 1718-39

XVI. TO THE TREATY OF KAINARDJI. 1739-74

XVII. TO THE TREATY OF JASSY. 1774-92

XVIII. TO THE TREATY OF BUCHAREST. 1792-1812

XIX. MAHMOUD II. 1808-39

XX. THE RULE OF ELCHIS. 1839-76

XXI. ABDUL HAMID II. 1876-1909

XXII. THE YOUNG TURKS. 1909-14

XXIII. A RETROSPECT

APPENDIX. GENEALOGY OF THE OTTOMAN SULTANS

Footnote

INDEX

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G. Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley

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It has been shown that hitherto in the Ottoman conquests in Asia Minor at the expense of the Byzantine Empire a great proportion of the Christian population embraced Islam; and it may well have been that the spread of Islam and the conversion of infidels to the true faith were in part the incentives for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. But henceforth, after the organization of the army by Orchan and Murad and the great rewards held out to the soldiers for the conquest of non-Moslem territories, it does not appear that the Ottoman armies were inspired by any missionary zeal for the spread of Islam. The main, if not the sole motives, were loot and plunder, the sale of captives as slaves, and the confiscation of land and its distribution among the soldiers as fiefs; and these objects were attained to a far greater extent by the invasion of Christian States in Europe than by the extension of the Empire over Moslem countries in Asia.

In the year 1354 Orchan, after completing the organization of his army, turned his attention for the first time to Europe. Thenceforth, till his death in 1359, his restless ambition was directed against the Byzantine Empire. Advancing age prevented his taking the field himself at the head of his army. But his eldest son, Solyman, who had all the great qualities of his race, and who was the idol of the army, took his place in command of the invading forces.

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