The ENTIRE History of the Ottoman Empire in 22 Minutes

The entire history of the Ottoman Empire, from Osman's frontier village around 1300 to the last sultan's exit in 1922, in 22 minutes. In November 1922, the 36th Ottoman sultan left Istanbul in the rain, escorted by a British ambulance, and refused to take the holiest relics in his care. Six centuries earlier, his family owned little more than a village on a frontier. In between, they took Constantinople, ruled Mecca and Medina, and twice marched on Vienna. Inside: Osman and the dream of the tree, Bursa and Gallipoli, the Janissaries and the devshirme, the Battle of Kosovo, Bayezid the Thunderbolt and Timur at Ankara, Mehmed the Conqueror and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, ships dragged over a hill, Selim the Grim, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan and Hürrem Sultan, Lepanto and "an arm and a beard", the Sultanate of Women, Vienna 1683, the end of the Janissaries in 1826, the Tanzimat, "the sick man of Europe", the Young Turks, Gallipoli 1915 and Mustafa Kemal, Sèvres, Sakarya and Lausanne — and the three things the empire left behind. Was it really three hundred years of decline after Suleiman, or an empire that kept changing? Make your case in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 1922: The Last Sultan Leaves Istanbul 1:06 Anatolia Around 1300: Byzantines, Mongols, Warlords 1:33 Osman, Söğüt and the Dream of the Tree 2:15 Bursa: The First Ottoman Capital 2:50 1354: Gallipoli, the First Foothold in Europe 3:20 The Janissaries and the Devshirme 3:54 Edirne and the Battle of Kosovo, 1389 4:30 Bayezid the Thunderbolt and Nicopolis 4:53 Timur and the Disaster at Ankara, 1402 5:15 Civil War and Recovery 5:40 Mehmed II Wants Constantinople 6:03 The Siege of 1453: Cannons and Orban's Bombard 6:30 Ships Dragged Over a Hill 6:47 29 May 1453: The Fall of Constantinople 7:12 Kostantiniyye Becomes Istanbul 7:44 Bayezid II and the Jews of Spain 7:59 Selim the Grim: Chaldiran, Egypt, Mecca and Medina 8:51 The Prophet's Cloak and the Caliphate 9:20 Suleiman the Magnificent: Belgrade and Mohács 9:58 The First Siege of Vienna, 1529 10:13 Barbarossa, Sinan and the Süleymaniye 10:47 Hürrem Sultan and the Empire at Its Peak 11:10 Was It Really Decline? 11:30 Lepanto and Cyprus: "An Arm and a Beard" 12:17 The Sultanate of Women and the Kafes 12:45 Janissaries Who Made and Unmade Sultans 13:17 Vienna 1683 and the Treaty of Karlowitz 13:52 Russia, Crimea and the Black Sea 14:18 1826: The End of the Janissaries 15:13 Serbia, Greece and Muhammad Ali's Egypt 15:45 The Tanzimat Reforms 16:00 "The Sick Man of Europe", the Crimean War and Debt 16:41 Abdulhamid II, the Constitution and the Congress of Berlin 17:32 The Young Turks and the Balkan Wars 18:15 1914: The Ottomans Enter World War I 18:35 Gallipoli 1915 and Mustafa Kemal 19:20 The Arab Revolt and the Armistice of 1918 19:45 The Treaty of Sèvres 20:01 Atatürk, Sakarya and the End of the Sultanate 20:52 1923: Lausanne and the Turkish Republic 21:16 What Stayed: Istanbul's Skyline 21:42 Turkish Coffee Goes to Europe 22:00 The Sacred Relics of Topkapı SOURCES English Wikipedia and World History Encyclopedia articles on the Ottoman Empire, its sultans, battles and treaties. Where historians disagree (the founding date of 1299, the "decline" after Suleiman, the caliphate handover story), the video says so. MAPS Historical borders based on historical-basemaps (aourednik) and Natural Earth. AI DISCLOSURE Narration voice, illustrations, animated clips and music are AI-generated. Faces are simplified cartoon figures, not portraits of real people. #history #ottomanempire #ottomans