Tra disfatta diplomatica e disastro militare: il 1917, annus horribilis dell’Impero ottomano
Abstract
The year 1917 represented a real nightmare for the Ottoman Empire in the context of the First World War. In fact, even though the Sultan surrendered more than a year later, both the military and diplomatic events occurred in 1917 stroke a final blow to an already tired and obsolete empire. In this essay I have analyzed the root causes of the Ottoman weakness before the war, to better understand how a single year put an end to a more than six hundred years old empire
DOI Code:
10.1285/i22808949a6n2p395
Keywords:
Ottoman Empire; Young Turks; Middle East; World War I; Arab Revolt; Balfour Declaration; Sykes-Picot Agreement; Husayn-McMahon Correspondence; 1917, Lawrence d’Arabia
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