Caroline Finkel

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Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Publications[]

Her book Osman's Dream, History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States (ISBN 0-465-02396-7).[1][2][3] A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010. The Turkish edition, Rüyadan İmparatorluğa: Osmanlı (2007) is in its fourth printing.

She has recently co-authored a guide book of Turkey's first long-distance equestrian, hiking and biking route, the Evliya Çelebi Way, one of Turkey's new culture routes. It is available in English and Turkish.

Other works include The administration of warfare: the Ottoman military campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606 (1988), and The seismicity of Turkey and adjacent areas : a historical review, 1500-1800 (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys. She holds honorary fellowships at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Exeter in England.

References[]

  1. ^ "How the Ottomans shaped London". BBC. 14 June 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  2. ^ Imber, Colin (2006). "Review of Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 69 (2): 317–319. ISSN 0041-977X.
  3. ^ "Aksan on Finkel, 'Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923' | H-Turk | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.


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