TRENDEAtlas of the Sultans

Story Map Tours: Turning Points of Ottoman History on the Map

Each tour tells one turning point stop by stop. As you scroll, the map moves to that moment's year and zooms in on where it happened; land won at a stop lights up, land lost is hatched.

• 1451–1461 · 8 stopsThe Conquest of ConstantinopleFrom the Throat-Cutter fortress to 29 May: a fifty-four-day siege
• 1683–1699 · 7 stopsFrom Vienna to KarlowitzFrom the last great campaign to the first great loss of land: a sixteen-year war
• 1911–1922 · 10 stopsThe Last Years of the EmpireFrom Tripoli to the abolition of the sultanate: 1911–1922