Caroline Finkel
{{Short description|British historian and writer}}
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Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Publications
Her book Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States ({{ISBN|0-465-02396-7}}).{{Cite news|date=2010-06-14|title=How the Ottomans shaped London|language=en-GB|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8735000/8735947.stm|access-date=2021-01-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Imber|first=Colin|date=2006|title=Review of Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20182042|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|volume=69|issue=2|pages=317–319|doi=10.1017/S0041977X06220147 |jstor=20182042 |s2cid=162933983 |issn=0041-977X}}{{Cite web|title=Aksan on Finkel, 'Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923' {{!}} H-Turk {{!}} H-Net|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/reviews/11507/aksan-finkel-osmans-dream-story-ottoman-empire-1300-1923|access-date=2021-01-11|website=networks.h-net.org}} A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010. The Turkish edition, Rüyadan İmparatorluğa: Osmanlı (2007) is in its fourth printing.
She has recently co-authored a guidebook of Turkey's first long-distance equestrian, hiking and biking route, the Evliya Çelebi Way. It is available in English and Turkish.{{cite web |title=Buying the Guide Book |url=http://cultureroutesinturkey.com/c/evliya-celebi-way/book-stockists/ |website=cultureroutesinturkey.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123163134/http://cultureroutesinturkey.com/c/evliya-celebi-way/book-stockists/ |archive-date=23 January 2012}}
Other works include The administration of warfare: the Ottoman military campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606 (1988), and The seismicity of Turkey and adjacent areas : a historical review, 1500-1800 (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys. She holds honorary fellowships at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Exeter in England.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
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