Caroline Finkel

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Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.[1]

Publications

Her book Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States (ISBN 0-465-02396-7).[2][3][4] A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010. The Turkish edition, Rüyadan İmparatorluğa: Osmanlı (2007) is in its fourth printing.

She has recently co-authored a guidebook of Turkey's first long-distance equestrian, hiking and biking route, the Evliya Çelebi Way. It is available in English and Turkish.[5]

Other works include The Administration of Warfare: The Ottoman Military Campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606 (1988), and The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas : A Hstorical Review, 1500-1800 (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys.

She holds honorary fellowships at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Exeter in England.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Cornucopia Magazine Caroline Finkel". www.cornucopia.net. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "How the Ottomans shaped London". BBC News. 14 June 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Imber, Colin (2006). "Review of Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 69 (2): 317–319. doi:10.1017/S0041977X06220147. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 20182042. S2CID 162933983.
  4. ↑ "Aksan on Finkel, 'Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923' | H-Turk | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Buying the Guide Book". cultureroutesinturkey.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012.
  6. ↑ FINKEL, CAROLINE (1 June 2010). "Reforming Sultan". The Court Historian. 15 (1): 97–101. doi:10.1179/cou.2010.15.1.007. ISSN 1462-9712. Caroline Finkel is an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter, and author of a standard work on Ottoman history, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 (John Murray, 2005; and various languages).