ABSTRACT: This article argues for teaching the Ottoman Empire as a transregional imperial formation rather than through nation-centered or decline-based frameworks. Challenging rigid geographic and disciplinary boundaries, it demonstrates how comparative and spatial approaches focused particularly on the Balkans, migration, and imperial governance reveal enduring Ottoman networks and legacies across post-Ottoman worlds. Drawing on classroom practices, the article shows how comparative imperial history clarifies processes of reform, nationalism, demographic engineering, and institutional continuity from the nineteenth century to the present.
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular (Sat,) studied this question.