books.google.com - Once stretching from Vienna in the north to Iraq and Yemen in the south, the Ottoman Empire has played an integral role in the history of Eurasia and the Middle East. The dynamics and complexity of the present-day Middle East and Balkans cannot be understood without an examination of the history of the...http://books.google.com/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_the_Ottoman_Empire.html?hl=nl&id=QjzYdCxumFcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEncyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire