%0 Journal Article %T Tra disfatta diplomatica e disastro militare: il 1917, annus horribilis dellĄŻImpero ottomano %J - %D 2017 %R DOI Code: 10.1285/i22808949a6n2p395 %X The year 1917 represented a real nightmare for the Ottoman Empire in the context of the First World War. In fact, even though the Sultan surrendered more than a year later, both the military and diplomatic events occurred in 1917 stroke a final blow to an already tired and obsolete empire. In this essay I have analyzed the root causes of the Ottoman weakness before the war, to better understand how a single year put an end to a more than six hundred years old empir %K Ottoman Empire %K Young Turks %K Middle East %K World War I %K Arab Revolt %K Balfour Declaration %K Sykes-Picot Agreement %K Husayn-McMahon Correspondence %K 1917 %K Lawrence dĄŻArabia %U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/eunomia/article/view/18834