books.google.com - Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place apart, inextricably divided from the West by differences of culture and religion. A perception of its militarism, its barbarism,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ottoman_Empire_and_Early_Modern_Euro.html?id=3uJzjatjTL4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
