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Ottoman Empire

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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Ottoman Empire

Empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia. One of the a lot of able states in the apple during the 15th and 16th centuries, it spanned added than 600 years and came to an end alone in 1922, if it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and assorted almsman states in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. At its acme the authority included a lot of of southeastern Europe to the gates of Vienna, including avant-garde Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, and Ukraine; Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt; North Africa as far west as Algeria; and a lot of of the Arabian Peninsula. The appellation Ottoman is a dynastic appellation acquired from Osman , the drifting Turkmen arch who founded both the absolutism and the empire.

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