Episode four traces the long decline of the Ottoman dynasty, from the palace at Topkapi through the late seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the Janissaries' turn from loyal shield to source of mutinies that could depose sultans, economic strain from silver inflation, the weakening of provincial control, and the loss of European territory at Karlowitz in 1699. It closes with the Tanzimat reforms, the reign of Abdul Hamid II, and the Young Turk Revolution, as the empire's rulers faced a crisis they could no longer control.
More: https://thelineagearchive.com/dynasty/ottoman-dynasty
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