Outline of the Ottoman Empire

Main periods

Rise of the Ottoman Empire

Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire

Transformation of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman ancien régime

Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire

Defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire

Partition

Subperiods

Ottoman Interregnum

Sultanate of Women

Köprülü era

Tulip period

Tanzimat era

1st Constitutional Era

2nd Constitutional Era

Historiography

Ottoman Decline Thesis

Gaza Thesis

Historiography of the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Structure of the Ottoman Empire

Economic history of the Ottoman Empire

State organization of the Ottoman Empire

Social structure in the Ottoman Empire

Culture of the Ottoman Empire

Science and technology in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Turkish language

Demographics of the Ottoman Empire

Religion in the Ottoman Empire

Reform attempts in the Ottoman Empire

Socioeconomics of the Ottoman reformation era

Socioeconomics of the Ottoman enlargement era

Millet system

Ottoman Law

Porte

Tughra

Line of succession to the Ottoman throne

Military of the Ottoman Empire

Enderun

Jannisary

Sipahi

Cebeci

Nizam-ı Cedid Army

Timar

Nöker

Ikta

Eyalet

Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire

Sanjak

Ağalık

Kadılık

Salname

Titles and posts

Sultan

Grand vizier

Vizier

Beylerbey

Pasha

Kazasker

Nisanci

Defterdar

Reisülküttap

Lala

Aga

Sanjak bey

History of Ottoman-ruled countries

Albania

Algeria

Armenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Cyprus

Egypt

Eritrea

Greece

Hungary

Iraq

Kosovo

Libya

Macedonia

Montenegro

Serbia

Syria

Tunisia

Ukraine

Some male members of the Ottoman house

Alaeddin Pasha

Süleyman Pasha

Şehzade Halil

Savcı Bey

Süleyman Çelebi

İsa Çelebi

Musa Çelebi

Mustafa Çelebi

Küçük Mustafa

Cem Sultan

Şehzade Ahmet

Şehzade Korkut

Şehzade Mustafa

Şehzade Beyazıt

Yusuf Izzettin Efendi

Abdülmecid II

Mothers and other women assumed the title Valide Sultan

Mal Hatun

Nilüfer Hatun

Gülçiçek Hatun

Devlet Hatun

Emine Hatun

Hüma Hatun

Emine Gülbahar Hatun

Sittişah Hatun

Gülbahar Hatun

Ayşe Hatun

Ayşe Hafsa Sultan

Hürrem Sultan

Nurbanu Sultan

Safiye Sultan

Handan Sultan

Halime Sultan

Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan

Mahpeyker Kösem Sultan

Turhan Hatice Sultan

Saliha Dilasub Sultan

Hatice Muazzez Sultan

Emetullah Rabia Gülnûş Sultan

Saliha Sebkati Sultan

Sehsuvar Sultan

Emine Mihrişah Kadınefendi

Rabia Şermi Kadınefendi

Mihrişah Sultan

Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi

Ayşe Seniyeperver Sultan

Nakşidil Sultan

Bezmiâlem Sultan

Pertevniyal Sultan

Şevkefza Sultan

Tirimüjgan Kadınefendi

Gülcemal Kadınefendi

Rahime Perestu Sultan

Gülüstü Kadınefendi

Some female members of the Ottoman house

Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Mahidevran

Mihrimah Sultana

Kaya Sultan

Hatice Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)

Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III)

Esma Sultan

Adile Sultana

Naile Sultan

Esma Sultan

Fehime Sultan

Some Crimean Khans

Meñli I Giray

Mehmed I Giray

Sahib I Giray

Devlet I Giray

Mehmed IV Giray

Islam III Giray

Adil Giray

Selim I Giray

Devlet II Giray

Şahin Giray

Other notable viziers, governors and soldiers

Abaza Hasan Pasha

Abaza Mehmed Pasha

Gazi Evrenos

Hacı İlbey

Lala Şahin Pasha

Zağanos Pasha

Tiryaki Hasan Pasha

Telli Hasan Pasha

Özdemir Pasha

Cezzar Ahmet Pasha

Ali Pasha

Muhammed Ali of Egypt

Gazi Osman Pasha

Ethem Pasha

Ahmet Cemal

Enver Pasha

Sea men (Kaptan Pashas)

Kemal Reis

Piri Reis

Oruç Reis

Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha

Aydın Reis

Turgut Reis

Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis

Salih Reis

Murat Reis the Elder

Seydi Ali Reis

Piyale Pasha

Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis

Müezzinzade Ali Pasha

Kılıç Ali Pasha

Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha

Hasan Rami Pasha

Architects

Atik Sinan

Mimar Sinan

Sedefkar Mehmed Agha

Mimar Kasım

Artists (painter and calligrapher)

Ahmed Karahisari

Nakkaş Osman

Hâfiz Osman

Levni

Osman Hamdi Bey

Şeker Ahmet Paşa

Hoca Ali Riza

Halil Paşa

Musicians

Hafız Post

Buhurizade Itri

Hampartsoum Limondjian

Dede Efendi

Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey

Hacı Arif Bey

Tatyos Efendi

Tamburi Cemil Bey

Poets and authors

Pir Sultan Abdal

Fuzûlî

Hayâlî

Bâkî

İncili Çavuş

Nef'i

Karacaoğlan

Neşâtî

Nedîm

Dadaloğlu

İbrahim Şinasi

Agah Efendi

Namık Kemal

Tevfik Fikret

Ömer Seyfettin

Men of letters and historians

Aşıkpaşazade

İdris-i Bitlisi

Matrakçı Nasuh

Hoca Sadeddin Efendi

Mustafa Ali

Mustafa Selaniki

Koçi Bey

Katip Çelebi

Evliya Çelebi

İbrahim Peçevi

Mustafa Naima

Osman Aga of Timişoara

İbrahim Müteferrika

Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga

Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi

Ahmed Resmî Efendi

Ahmet Cevdet Pasha

Ziya Gökalp

Scientists (including Astrologist)

Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu

Ali Kuşçu

Orban

Takiyuddin

Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi

Lagari Hasan Çelebi

Erzurumlu İbrahim Hakkı

Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede

Some families

Balyan family

Çandarlı Family

Köprülü family

Levidis family

Malkoçoğlu Family

Palaces (İstanbul)

Adile Sultan Palace

Aynalıkavak Palace

Beylerbeyi Palace

Çırağan Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace

Esma Sultan Mansion

Hatice Sultan Palace

Ihlamur Palace

Khedive Palace

Küçüksu Palace

Maslak Palace

Topkapı Palace

Yıldız Palace

Mosques (İstanbul)

Atik Ali Pasha Mosque

Atik Valide Mosque

Beyazıt II Mosque

Dolmabahçe Mosque

Eyüp Sultan Mosque

Fatih Mosque

Firuz Ağa Mosque

Handan Agha Mosque

Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque

Laleli Mosque

Mihrimah Mosque

Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar)

Molla Çelebi Mosque

The New Mosque

Nuruosmaniye Mosque

Nusretiye Mosque

Ortaköy Mosque

Pertevniyal Mosque

Rüstem Pasha Mosque

Sinan Pasha Mosque

Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque

Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)

Süleymaniye Mosque

Şehzade Mosque

Şemsi Pasha Mosque

Teşvikiye Mosque

Yavuz Selim Mosque

Yeni Valide Mosque

Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque

Zeynep Sultan Mosque

Mosques (Elsewhere)

Bayezid I Mosque

Bursa Grand Mosque

İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque

Murat Paşa Mosque

Nasrullah Mosque

Old Mosque

Omer Pasha Mosque

Selimiye Mosque

Tekeli Mehmet Paşa Mosque

Üç Şerefeli Mosque

Ulucami

Yeşil Mosque

Wars

Ottoman wars in Europe

Ottoman wars in Asia

Ottoman wars in Africa

Croatian–Ottoman Wars

Long campaign (1443–1444)

Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War (c. 1493 – 1593)

Long War (1593–1606)

Great Turkish War (1662–1699)

Ottoman Persian Wars

War of 1532–1555

War of 1578–1590

War of 1603–1618

War of 1623–1639

War of 1730–1735

War of 1743–1746

War of 1775–1776

War of 1821–1823

Ottoman–Venetian Wars

Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)

The first Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)

The second Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)

The third Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)

The fourth Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)

The fifth Ottoman–Venetian War or Cretan War (1645–1669)

The sixth Ottoman–Venetian War or Morean War (1684–1699)

The seventh and last Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)

Polish–Ottoman Wars

Moldavian Magnate Wars

Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621)

Polish–Ottoman War (1633–1634)

Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671)

Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) (or "2nd Polish–Ottoman War")

Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699) (or "3rd Polish–Ottoman War")

Russo-Turkish War

Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)

Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)

Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)

Russo Turkish War (1710)

Russo-Turkish War (1735-1739)

Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)

Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)

Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)

Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Other wars

Byzantine–Ottoman Wars

Ottoman–Persian Wars

History of the Serbian–Turkish wars

Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Indian Ocean campaigns

Italian War of 1542–1546

Italo-Turkish War

Balkan Wars

World War I

Sieges

Bursa (1326)

İznik (1331)

İzmit (1333)

Edirne (1361)

Tarnovo (1393)

İstanbul (1422)

Thessalonica (1422)

Svetigrad (1448)

İstanbul (1453)

Belgrade (1456)

Kruje (1478)

Rhodes (1480)

Otranto (1481)

Cairo (1517)

Rhodes (1522)

Algiers (1529)

Vienna (1529)

Tunis (1534)

Baghdat (1534)

Corfu (1537)

Diu (1538)

Aden (1538)

Castelnuovo (1539)

Buda (1541)

Esztergom (1543)

Van (1547)

Tripoli (1551)

Eger(1552)

Oran (1556)

Oran (1563)

Malta (1565)

Szigetvar (1566)

Tunis (1574)

Baghdad (1638)

Candia (1669)

Vienna (1683)

Belgrade (1739)

Caucasus Campaign

Köprüköy (Bergmann)

Sarikamis

Ardahan

Malazgirt (Manzikert)

Kara Kilise

Erzurum

Trabzon

Bitlis

Erzincan

Sardarapat

Abaran

Karakilisa

Baku

Mesopotamian campaign

Fao– Basra

Qurna

Es Sinn

Ctesiphon

1st Kut

Shiekh Sa'ad

Wadi

Hanna

Dujaila

2nd Kut

Baghdad

Samarrah Offensive

Ramadi

Khan Baghdadi

Sharqat

Sinai and Palestine Campaign

Kanal (Suez)

Romani

Magdhaba

Refah (Rafa)

1st Gaza

2nd Gaza

El Buggar

Birüşebi (Beersheba)

3rd Gaza

Mughar Ridge

Kudüs(Jerusalem)

Abu Tellul

Megiddo

Gallipoli Campaign

Çanakkale deniz (Naval operations)

Arıburnu (Anzac Cove)

Helles

1.Kirte (Krithia)

2.Kirte (Krithia)

3.Kirte (Krithia)

Kumkale

Sığındere (Gully Ravine)

Anafartalar (Sari Bair)

Kirte Bağları (Krithia Vineyard)

Kanlısırt (Lone Pine)

Suvla

Kılışbayır (The Nek)

Conk Bayırı (Chunuk Bair)

Yusufçuk Tepe (Scimitar Hill)

Hill 60

Revolts and notable events

Sheikh Bedrettin

Şahkulu

Jelali revolts

Beylerbeyi Event

Abaza rebellion

Atmeydanı Incident

Çınar Incident

Edirne event

Patrona Halil

Kabakçı Mustafa

Charter of Alliance

The Auspicious Incident

Serbian revolt

Greek revolt

Bulgarian revolt

Arab revolt

Atçalı Kel Mehmet

31 March Incident

Babıali raid

Diplomacy

French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

Polish Jagiellon ambassadors to Turkey

Lists

List of the Ottoman battles in which the sultan participated

List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman wars in Europe

List of Ottoman sieges and landings

List of cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire

Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent

List of campaigns of Mehmed the Conqueror

Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty

List of Ottoman titles and appellations

Ports of the Ottoman Empire