After that, though, the custom languished, along with the empire itself. The Ottomans barely saw out the 19th century, and when the Turkish state revived, in the 1920s underKemal Atatürk, it did so by turning its back on almost everything the old empire had stood for. Sources Anthony A...
Muslim Empire began to decline and divided into independent kingdoms Battles for control of the kingdoms until around 1260 CE Then a new Muslim empire. NEXT Section 1 The Byzantine Empire After Rome split, the Eastern Empire, known as Byzantium, flourishes for a thousand years. Muslim Civiliza...
Süleimān I then added areas that had never been permanent parts of the Roman Empire, like Iraq and Hungary. Picking up the conflict with the Safavids, Süleimān I for the first time since Alexander the Great removed Iraq from Iranian possession (the map above shows the pre-Safavid Aq Qoyu...