Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for almost the entire duration of WW1. From the 14th Century to the 20th Century, the Ottoman Empire, centred in modern-day Turkey ...

But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that ... and some - though this is a massive stretch - claim that it was actually World War 1 that finally did the Romans in.

This led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, marking a turning point in ... The peace treaties at the end of WWI have a long afterlife, and nowhere is this more visible than in Central and ...

The German, Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires collapsed and were replaced ... the fallen soldiers who gave their ...

For centuries the Egyptians had been part of the Turkish Empire, ruled by the fiercest warriors in the Middle East — the Mamelukes. Remarkable for their courage, pride, and cruelty, the ...

Following the revolution WW1 was largely forgotten, and dismissed by the Soviets as an “imperialist” battle. Around 1.7 million soldiers fighting for the Russian Empire died in the conflict ...