The Ottoman Empire collapsed in the early 20th century, One of the largest empires in history, the Spanish Empire, also known as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, spanned over 5.3 ...

But he made slower progress because Iran was poorer and had been more isolated from European influences that the Ottoman empire had been. At the outbreak of World War ... diminishing much of Iran's ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... And in a section devoted to a 16th-century Venetian shipwreck—which displays circular windowpanes created for the harem ...