The ENTIRE Story of the Ottoman Empire | History for Sleep

Tonight we follow one family, and the empire they built, from a campfire on a hillside in Anatolia to the last train leaving Istanbul, six hundred years later. A calm, chronological history for sleep: Osman and the frontier, Bursa and the crossing into Europe, the Janissaries, Timur at Ankara, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 told at walking pace, Selim and Suleiman, an ordinary evening in sixteenth-century Istanbul, Lepanto and Vienna, the Tulip Era, the reforms, and the last hundred years. I never turn on mid-roll ads. You don't need to remember anything. If you fall asleep somewhere in the fourteenth century, the empire will carry on without you. Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:46 A frontier at the edge of two worlds 11:13 Bursa and the crossing 20:06 Thunderbolt and the broken years 27:30 The city 38:39 Selim and Suleiman 49:53 An ordinary evening in Istanbul 1:04:20 The long afternoon 1:14:14 The last hundred years 1:23:25 Goodnight Sources Caroline Finkel, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire (2005) · Halil İnalcık, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300–1600 · Marc David Baer, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (2021) · Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople (2005) · Encyclopaedia of Islam. Artwork and photographs (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons): Yusuf Pasha visiting the tombs of the Seljuq rulers, Sefername of Muhlisi — Ottoman miniature, early 17th century · Ottoman sultans — unknown artist · Towers on a Rock near the Bosphorus — Ivan Aivazovsky · Battle of Kosovo — Adam Stefanović, 1870 · Enthronement ceremony of Selim III — Konstantin Kapıdağlı · Battle of Ankara, 1402 — Ottoman miniature, 1436 · Bayezid in Captivity — Stanisław Chlebowski · The Fall of Constantinople — Panagiotis Zographos · Portrait of Mehmed II — Gentile Bellini · Interior of Hagia Sophia — Gaspare Fossati and Louis Haghe · Portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent — workshop of Titian · Battle of Mohács — Ottoman miniature · The Golden Horn with the Süleymaniye Mosque — Amédée Rosier · The Grand Bazaar — Amadeo Preziosi · The Spice Sellers — Amadeo Preziosi · Turkish coffeehouse — unknown Greek watercolourist · View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus — Ivan Aivazovsky · Moonlit Night — Ivan Aivazovsky · The Battle of Lepanto — Paolo Veronese · The Relief of Vienna — unknown artist, 1684 · Mahmud II — Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger · Abdul Hamid II — W. & D. Downey, photographers · Ottoman soldiers at Gallipoli — Bain News Service · Sultan Mehmed VI — Bain News Service · The former Sultan Mehmed VI arriving in Malta on a British warship — Grand Studio, Malta Music: "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Research and drafting use AI assistance and the narration is a synthetic voice; every script is checked against the sources above and edited by hand. All images are public domain. 🌙 Late Shift History — a new story every Thursday night:    / @lateshifthistory   #historyforsleep #sleephistory #ottomanempire