Rivers of the Sultan

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Rivers of the Sultan is written by Faisal Husain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197547273 (ISBN 10) and 9780197547274 (ISBN 13).

In the early sixteenth century, a series of military campaigns between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf brought the entirety of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers under Ottoman control. This book offers a history of this rare political unification of the longest rivers in West Asia and its impact on the Ottoman state, provincial society, and the environment.