Main group 1

• Howard, Douglas A., A history of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2017
• Soucek, Svatopluk, A history of inner Asia, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Zürcher, Erik Jan, Turkey: a modern history, New ed., London, Tauris, cop. 2004Compulsory*

• Golden, Peter B., An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1992
• Sinor, Denis, The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990

* Compulsory