Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches (German: "History of the Ottoman Empire") is a work by the Austrian orientalist historian Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
The result of 30 years of work, it became the standard reference on the subject.
According to the Turkish historian Doğan Gürpınar, this "monumental" work is "arguably the equivalent of Gibbon's Decline and Fall for Ottoman historiography.
English historian Sir Edward Creasy used it as his main source for History of the Ottoman Turks (1854).
This article about a non-fiction book on the Ottoman Empire is a stub.