2.2 The Red Sultan

Helpful maps and images for Season 2, Episode 2.

Sultan Abdulhamid II, "The Red Sultan" (1899)

Maps of the Ottoman Empire During Abdulhamid's Reign*

Ottoman Europe (Rumelia) After Treaty of Berlin (1878)

Ottoman Provinces Under Direct Ottoman Control

Macedonia | Albania | Thrace

Autonomous Regions Under Ottoman Suzerainty 

Eastern Rumelia | Bulgaria (Principalities under Russian Domination) |

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Province under Austrian Domination)

Independent Former Ottoman Provinces 

Serbia | Montenegro | Romania

Ottoman Anatolia After Treaty of Berlin (1878)

Former Ottoman Provinces Annexed Into Russian Empire

Kars | Ardahan | Batum

Ottoman Provinces Under Direct Ottoman Control

"Six Armenian Provinces (Vilayets)" (Status Discussed at Congress)

Van | Erzurum | Bitlis | Diyarbekir | Sivas | Harput

*Image Credit to AbdurRahman AbdulMoneim

Abdulhamid as a Young Prince Visiting Western Europe (1867)

Portrait of Abdulhamid

Midhat Pasha, Father of the 1876 Constitution

Yildiz Palace

Emblem of Yildiz Intelligence Agency