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5 days ago · But by the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire had entered a prolonged period of decline. A series of weak and ineffectual sultans led to corruption, decadence and misrule. The once cutting-edge Ottoman military fell behind the technological curve and suffered humiliating defeats, notably against Russia.
2 days ago · Although on the winning side in the Crimean War, the Ottoman Empire continued to decline in power and prestige. The financial strain on the treasury forced the Ottoman government to take a series of foreign loans at such steep interest rates that, despite all the fiscal reforms that followed, pushed it into unpayable debts and economic ...
5 days ago · The Ottoman Empire lasted for almost 600 years, from the early 1300s to the aftermath of the First World War. It began as a provincial principality in Anatolia and eventually expanded to become a vast empire, stretching across three continents. What caused the collapse of the Ottoman Empire?
- Hubert Wolf
4 days ago · At the end of the early modern period, the British and Russian empires had emerged as world powers from the multipolar contest of colonial empires, while the three great Asian empires of the early modern period, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India and Qing China, all entered a period of stagnation or decline.
3 days ago · Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika, then a thriving port of the Ottoman Empire, and was given the name Mustafa. His father, Ali Riza, had been a lieutenant in a local militia unit during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, indicating that his origins were within the Ottoman ruling class, if only marginally.
- Norman Itzkowitz
- Kemal Atatürk was founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, having galvanized the Turkish people after the defeat of the Ottoman Empir...
- Kemal Atatürk’s father, a local lieutenant in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, dedicated him to military service and sent him to a modern secular...
- Kemal Atatürk became a national hero after turning back the Allies at Gallipoli during World War I. Still, the Ottomans were defeated. To prevent p...
- Aside from being the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk laid the groundwork for Turkey’s state ideology, known as Kemalism. Its principles are...
1 day ago · The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians were ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was an absolute monarch titled the tsar.
2 days ago · Date accessed: 29 May, 2024. See Author's Response. The last century and a half of Ottoman history was marked by forced displacement into the empire on a huge scale. Between the Russian conquest of the Crimea in 1783 and the second Balkan war in 1913, five to seven million Muslims entered the Ottoman domains.
