Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the

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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 (). 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. 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 historical review, 1500-1800'' (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys. She holds honorary fellowships at the

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in Scotland and the

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in England.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) British writers British historians Historians of Turkey Scholars of Ottoman history Historians of Europe Living people British military historians British women historians {{UK-nonfiction-writer-stub