The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria Hungary in 1914 doomed