This book -one of Atatürk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History Publications of Turkish Historical Society-, prepared by Salâhi R. Sonyel, contains five chapters as following: Zenith of the Ottoman Empire (1280-1566); Period of Decline (1566-1789); The Era of Reforms (1789-1876); Minorities during the reign of Abdülhamit II and the Young Turks (1876-1914); The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire (1914-1923).