The province, centered on the chief city and capital of the same name, had been part of the Ottoman Empire from 1534 to 1878, when the Russians annexed it following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 ...

When this plan was thwarted by the Turks, the theater of war shifted to the Crimea, the peninsula that sits at the northern part of the Black Sea. The Russo-Turkish War and the subsequent Crimean War ...

Turkish prisoners of war with guarded by British soldiers, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), WW1. A prolonged campaign saw British and Allied forces capture key cities and territories in Ottoman-controlled ...