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1 day ago · Mehmed, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmet]; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Ottoman Turkish: ابو الفتح, romanized: Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit. 'the Father of Conquest'; Turkish: Fâtih Sultan Mehmed ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February ...
4 days ago · Abdülaziz (born February 9, 1830, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died June 4, 1876, Constantinople) was an Ottoman sultan (1861–76) who continued the Westernizing reforms that had been initiated by his predecessors until 1871, after which his reign took an absolutist turn.
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1 day ago · Ottoman contacts with India dated back to the second half of the 15th century. Embassies were exchanged between the Ottomans and the Bahmanid sultans of the Deccan, and Ottoman subjects were employed in India; rumi s, or Anatolians, were particularly prized for their mastery of artillery. 1 Yet the engagement between the two sides was limited.
3 days ago · The Ottoman sultan could not stop these attacks so the European powers negotiated with the Regency directly and conducted vigorous sea operations against it, but the pirates expanded across the Atlantic and the Barbary slave trade reached its apex in Algiers.
5 days ago · The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: the Structure of Power. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, ISBN: 333613873X; 419pp.; Price: £16.99. Ottoman histories – better put: histories of the Ottoman state – have some right to be regarded in a pseudo-Braudelian sense as une historiographie du longue durée. Richard Knolles’s massive folio, Generall ...
2 days ago · Istanbul, largest city and principal seaport of Turkey. Historically known as Byzantium and then Constantinople, it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul straddles the Bosporus strait, one of two waterways that separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
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2 days ago · It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (freed slave soldiers) headed by a sultan. The sultanate was established with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt in 1250 and was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
