量子资源网提供本资源 <> It was the world's last Islamic emire - a suer-ower of a million square miles. From its caital in Istanbul it matched the glories of Ancient Rome. And after six centuries in ower it collased less than a hundred years ago. Rageh Omaar sets out to discover why the Ottomans have vanished from our understanding of the history of Euroe. Why so few realise the imortance of Ottoman history in today's Middle East. And why you have to know the Ottoman story to understand the roots of many of today's trouble sots from Palestine, Iraq and Israel to Libya, Syria, Egyt, Bosnia and Kosovo.