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2 days ago · The Ottoman Golden Age. The Ottoman Empire was founded in the early 14th century by Osman I, a tribal leader in western Anatolia. Through a combination of military conquests and shrewd diplomacy, Osman and his successors rapidly expanded their domain. The Middle East was a prime target for Ottoman expansion. In 1516-17, Sultan Selim I defeated ...
3 days ago · By the early 1800s, the Ottoman capital of Istanbul had little control over many key regions of the empire, including Palestine, southern Iraq, Mecca, and Medina. These regions were instead controlled by wealthy landowning families known as notables. Thus, in the mid-1800s, Ottoman officials enacted a series of reforms.
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1 day ago · How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won. Before uniting with Greece in late 1912, the island of Ikaria was briefly one of the world’s smallest independent states. That same year, islanders successfully rebelled against the Ottoman Empire. In 1900, the Ottoman Empire ruled parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
4 days ago · D. K. Fieldhouse’s goal in this major comparative study of British and French imperialism in the Middle East is to consider the effects of the imposition of the mandate system on the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
4 days ago · In the Ottoman Empire, the government introduced longer-term public borrowing in 1695 through a newtax farming system, the mālikāne, and introduced a new empire-wide coin, the kuruş, in a 1697 recoinage.
5 days ago · The Ottoman Empire was a sprawling political and military entity that arose in the late Middle Ages and survived into the 20th Century. The achievements of the empire include excellence in art and culture, autocratic brilliance and a large handful of initial military victories, and eventual defeats toward the end of its reign.
Did the Ottoman Empire purposefully underdevelop it's lands and exploit it's resources to enrich only Istanbul/Constantinople?
