As Mr Figes recalls, the tactical friendship between Western Christians and Ottoman Muslims had its limits.
For its part, Komotini offers an intriguing archaeological museum and Byzantine and Ottoman structures.
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He is nostalgic for the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires and in deep mourning for the British one.
Akko is a favourite part of many visits to the Holy Land, offering a well-preserved remnant of crusader and Ottoman eras.
The area was contested by the Russian and Ottoman empires between the 17th and 19th centuries when it came under Russian control.
Among the best: Hikmet Pinar on Cukurcuma Street, with its idiosyncratic collection that includes pieces of a Greek column and Ottoman wall decorations.
You can sit at intricately inlaid Damascene tables or recline on divans in front of engraved copper trays, in a room filled with antique books and Ottoman lamps.
Politicians from both sides have backed an international effort to publicise and preserve the old city of Famagusta, whose French, Venetian and Ottoman overlords all left their mark on its architecture.
The problem of how to cope with emerging nationalism in the Balkans faced by the multinational empires on all sides (Austria-Hungary, Russia and Ottoman Turkey) was the nub of the problem.
Once aboard the German carrier's A346, he was led to his first-class suite, where a spacious leather seat and ottoman ran the length of four airplane windows and various compartments overflowed with noise-canceling headphones, menus, pajamas and slippers.
Although most of the furniture was bought by Braka and Graham, the couple enlisted Robert Kime, the celebrated decorator who was appointed by the Prince of Wales to renovate Clarence House, to design the bedrooms and sitting rooms in his trademark style of fine upholstery mixed with English and Ottoman fabrics.
Through research in Ottoman archives and out in the provinces, chefs and restaurant owners have salvaged dishes that seemed lost to history and resurrected ancient Ottoman, regional, and home cooking.
The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.
The final section focuses on the Persian Saffavid, Mughal Indian and Turkish Ottoman empires, whose artistic and scientific achievements between 1500 and 1800 dazzled Europeans.
In the Ottoman empire (and in some post-Ottoman places), Christian and Jewish minorities flourished in business.
He has an abiding fascination with the Russian empire and the respects in which it resembled and differed from its British, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian competitors.
They frequently rebelled under Venetian and then Ottoman occupation, with southern strongholds like Sfakia (a rocky, barren territory centred on port village Hora Sfakion) remaining unconquered.
In the late 19th Century, Russians fought the British, French and the Ottoman Turks from these Crimean shores, as a part of an extended conflict over the spoils of the Ottoman Empire.
Lavish costumes are on display in the Dormitory of the Expeditionary Force, important Islamic relics are housed in the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms and fine examples of Ottoman calligraphy and portraiture are exhibited in the Quarters of Pages in Charge of the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms.
Regarding the latter, the progressive, centuries-long, gradual decline of Islam as a dominant force and civilization reached its nadir in 1924, when Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) simultaneously did away with the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire by overnight transforming the latter into a secular Turkish republic.
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The placid old town, enclosed by a massive Ottoman wall, conceals several appealing guest houses, and culminates on a bluff above with an Ottoman citadel and fascinating Byzantine museum.
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They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.
The large Jewish and Christian populations in Ottoman cities paid heavy taxes and, until the 19th century, were barred from political office.
With views over Ortahisar village's rock castle of Swiss-cheese holes, and cave rooms that blend Ottoman antiques with funky and fun colour, the bohemian-chic Hezen Hotel is perfect for those seeking a splash of eclectic glamour in a boutique sanctuary.
In our room there is an oversized leather chair with an ottoman and a large floor lamp.
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Mediterranean cuisine mixed with the best of the Ottoman and Byzantine kitchens.
Georgia was divided between the Ottoman and Persian empires for centuries until it became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
Life in these remote mountains, for centuries pinched tightly between the Ottoman and Persian empires, has shaped the resilient, resistant nature of the Kurdish character.
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