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Timeline for Ottomon History
The story of the Ottoman Empire has its beginning around the turn of the 14th century, in a corner of northwestern Anatolia where a group of Muslim Turkish tribesmen led by their chieftain, Osman, started to expand beyond their small principality on the Byzantine frontier.
Aug 15, 2005, 11:36
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Summerized Ottoman Empire
The Ottomans began as a small trine of nomadic Turks and up as the power that overthrew the Byzantine Empire, dominating the region for the next 600 years . The name Ottoman, Turkish Osmanli, is derived from their first leade Osman Gazi.
Aug 14, 2005, 11:15
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Wars of Ottomans
Wars of Ottomans
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The End
After a short period of freedom, during which the "constitution" meant days of liberty and that political comments in the press were free, the leading party, the CUP, pursued a policy of eliminating its opponents.
Aug 4, 2005, 12:31
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The Period of Reform
The long period of wars on the European front after the defeat at Vienna terminated with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, which incurred considerable territorial losses on the Ottomans.
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Times of Troubles and the Decline of Ottoman Military Power
At the end of the sixteenth century, Ottoman territories extended from Northern Hungary in the west to Iran in the east and from Ukraine in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south.
Aug 4, 2005, 12:20
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The Heyday of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottomans encountered a new threat at the turn of the sixteenth century: the Safevids of Iran. Evolved from a sufi order, the Turkoman Safevids adopted Shiite Islam and inherited the lands of the Akkoyunlu Confederation.
Aug 4, 2005, 12:10
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Cultural Life in the Classical Era
The sixteenth century saw many achievements of the Ottoman Turks in various fields ranging from architecture to poetry, embodied in the persons of such great figures as the architect Sinan and the poet Baki.
Aug 4, 2005, 12:08
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The Conquest and Rebuilding of Istanbul - The Age of Empire
Murad II left his son, Mehmed II, a strong state. The young Sultan was determined to capture the Byzantine capital and wasted no time in realising his dream.
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From the Interregnum to Empire
Bayezid I, known as Yildirim or Thunderbolt, who acceeded to the throne after theassassination of his father Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo, adopted an even moreambitious policy of conquest both in Anatolia and Rumelia.
Aug 4, 2005, 11:57
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The Emergence of the Ottomans
No one living around the year 1300 could have ever dreamt that a small principality led by Osman, son of Ertugrul, on the north-western frontier of Anatolia at the turn of the fourteenth century, would become one of the mightiest empires in world history.
Aug 4, 2005, 10:37
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General Introduction
The Republic of Turkey is the product of a historic choice of the Turkish nation, founded through a War of Independence, in the aftermath of the dissolution of the multi-national, multi-ethnic and multi-religious Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
Aug 3, 2005, 11:54
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