Ottoman Empire

ottoman empire  In the late 13th century, Osman I established a small principality sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and a weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Some of the states that succeeded the Ottoman Empire have chosen to sum up Ottoman rule in local curricula as simply Ottoman or Turkish

With the conquest of the Mamluk empire in 1517, the Ottomans ruled over the most powerful state in the Islamic world  The empire emerged from a beylik, or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in 1299 by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I His successors conquered much

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest multi-ethnic, multi-religious states in the world in 1750 But a changing global economy and war led to its The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia,