Billy Wellman > Quotes

“Taking the mantle of kingship when he was just a child, Pepi II ruled Egypt for about ninety-six years”
― Billy Wellman, Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian History, Starting from the Settlement of the Nile Valley through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the Death of Cleopatra VII

“Although there were arguments for further expansion into Europe,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Ottomans invaded the Austrian territories in 1683, laying siege to Vienna in June.”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Then, he proceeded to make peace with the European rulers, securing his western flank”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“In early 1357, Suleyman, Orhan’s eldest son and successor, tragically passed away, and the younger son of the Ottoman emir, Halil,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Barbarossa, with his sixty galleys, quickly realized he had no chance of winning any battle”
― Billy Wellman, Suleiman the Magnificent: An Enthralling Guide to the Sultan Who Ruled during the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

“By September of 1687, the Venetians had invaded Greece and taken Athens, something that greatly alarmed the Ottoman”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Safavids, who had once again thrust into Iraq and massacred the Sunni population of Baghdad in 1624.”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“The superior European forces were able to decisively defeat the Ottoman fleet, sinking more than fifty Muslim ships”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Bayezid I continued fighting the holy war in the name of Islam against the Christians of the Balkans”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“The Ottoman Empire became engulfed in a long war with the Kingdom of Poland, which lasted until 1498.”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“By the time of his death in 1566, he was by far the most powerful man in Europe,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Mehmed built a new castle for himself in Constantinople, overlooking the Bosphorus and allowing him to be secluded”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“With the capture of Nicomedia, the Ottomans became an undisputed force to be reckoned with”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“led by the legendary Tamerlane, in the early 1390s after brutal raids and conquests”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Ottoman army needed modernization and understood that the Janissaries stood in his way of fielding a military worthy of his European counterparts”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Russia’s Peter the Great had also taken Ottoman lands on the northern Black Sea coast in 1696,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“With no siege equipment, low discipline, and high expectations, the crusaders encamped near the city on its southern side,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“He managed to take down and vassalize the leaders of the four western beyliks—the Karasids, Menteshe, Sarukhanids, and Aydinids”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Members of the Janissary and the sipahi (cavalry) corps of the army were discontent with the continued defeats the army suffered.”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Hafsa Sultan, one of Selim’s concubines, gave birth to Suleiman on November 6, 1494.”
― Billy Wellman, Suleiman the Magnificent: An Enthralling Guide to the Sultan Who Ruled during the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

“By the year 1300, Osman had maneuvered his way through the fragmented political climate of the region”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Aided by many high-ranking officials, the military entered Istanbul and massacred many of the sultan’s closest allies in court,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Osman started the process, but Bursa wouldn’t be taken until 1326.”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“The remedy was a drastic one: the law of fratricide.”
― Billy Wellman, Suleiman the Magnificent: An Enthralling Guide to the Sultan Who Ruled during the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

“This gave the sultan effective control of the eastern Mediterranean”
― Billy Wellman, Suleiman the Magnificent: An Enthralling Guide to the Sultan Who Ruled during the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire

“Motivated by their French allies in the west, who were just as adamant about seeing the Habsburgs collapse”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Bayezid’s quick vanguard was able to crush the crusaders from the sides while the main infantry advanced forward”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Although the Byzantine Empire, or at least whatever was left of it, allied with the Ottomans,”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History

“Customs rates were also lowered to encourage foreign merchants to pass through Ottoman territories”
― Billy Wellman, The Ottoman Empire: An Enthralling Guide to One of the Mightiest and Longest-Lasting Dynasties in World History