# Caroline Finkel
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caroline finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
== Publications ==
Her book Osman's Dream, History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States (ISBN 0-465-02396-7). A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010.
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent
Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things. This week he is exploring the great empires of the world around 1500 - from the Inca in South America to the Ming in China and the Timurids in the Middle East. Today he is with the great Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered Const…
Caroline Finkel: The Sheep Farmer's Daughter who swapped Argyll for Istanbul
To mark the opening of Scottish International Week on 2 November 2021, Fraser Allen considers the global Scottish diaspora and interviews a fine example of this inquisitive and adventurous breed. When Argyll-bred Caroline Finkel first visited Turkey as a student in 1971, she fell in love with the c…
32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer
Evliya Çelebi travelled for 41 years. He documented his adventures, which included interactions with vampires, humans transforming into chickens, and dervishes riding rhinos. Listen as William and Anita are joined by Caroline Finkel to discuss this man and the vivid descriptions he provided of the …
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Today's preface comes courtesy of Dark Fantasy author Zamil Akhtar. Some of Zamil's publications include his break-out hit, Gunmetal Gods, Book 1 of the Gunmetal Gods Saga. And be sure to check out the latest installment in the Saga, Elder Epoch.
If you're interested in learn…
The Siege of Vienna, 1683
In the summer of 1683, Vienna stood alone against the largest field army the Ottoman Empire had ever assembled in Europe. For two months, Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha methodically strangled the city with mines, artillery, and starvation while Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg held a collapsing…
Suleiman the Magnificent (part 1): Suleiman the Magnificent
In 1520, a twenty-five-year-old named Suleiman became the tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was the only surviving son of Selim the Grim, the most feared conqueror of the age, so the crown passed to him without the usual war between brothers and without the strangling of rivals that so often o…
Suleiman the Magnificent (part 3): Kanuni, the Lawgiver
Suleiman the First ruled the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, from 1520 to 1566. To the kings of Europe, dazzled by his court and his conquests, he was Suleiman the Magnificent. But to the millions who actually lived under him, he carried a different name, and it was the one that lasted: …
Suleiman the Magnificent (part 4): The Friend He Raised and Killed
Ibrahim of Parga was the son of a Christian fisherman on the Greek coast, taken as a boy into the Ottoman system that turned captured children into the servants who ran the empire. He grew up beside the young prince Suleiman, reading and making music with him, and when Suleiman took the throne he r…
Suleiman the Magnificent (part 5): The Price of the Throne
Suleiman the Magnificent ruled the Ottoman Empire for forty-six years, the longest reign in its history and, by common agreement among historians, its highest point. This final episode of our five-part series is not about his conquests. It is about what they cost him.
The story turns on a single br…
The House of Osman - The First Hundred Years (part 2): The Crossing
This episode follows the Ottoman dynasty's first sustained foothold in Europe, from the moment Orhan's son Süleyman Pasha crossed into Thrace as a mercenary fighting someone else's civil war, to the Ottoman victory over a Serbian coalition at the Battle of the Maritsa in 1371.
The story turns on a …
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