Ottoman Empire alsoTurkish Empire A vast Turkish sultanate of southwest Asia, northeast Africa, and southeast Europe. It was founded in the 1200s by Osman I and ruled by his descendants until its dissolution after World War I. Originally a small state controlled by Ottoman or Osmanli Turks, it...
Overview: The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with...
The word Ottoman is a historical anglicisation of the name of Osman I, the founder of the Empire and of the ruling House of Osman (also known as the Ottoman dynasty). Osman's name in turn was the Turkish form of the Arabic name ʿUthmān (عثمان). In Ottoman Turkish...
(redirected from Wallachia Province, Ottoman Empire)Also found in: Encyclopedia. Wal·la·chi·a also Wa·la·chi·a (wə-lā′kē-ə, wŏ-) A historical region of southeast Romania between the Transylvanian Alps and the Danube River. Founded as a principality c. 1290, it was domina...
Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire was a conspicuous dynasty acknowledged as the mightiest Islamic superpower that harnessed large sections of the Middle East and Eastern Europe territories. Further, Ottoman Empire was founded in the 13th century by a leader of the Turkoman people named Osman I. So...
Third, it examines the impact of the Ottoman legacy on Turkish democracy. Finally; it addresses the question of why; until recently, continuity rather than change has characterized Turkish politics. The Ottoman Empire was founded at the end of the 14th century and reached its zenith in the ...
Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Lori (redirected fromLori Province, Ottoman Empire) Dictionary The following article is fromThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia(1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. (also Loriberd), an ancient Armenian city, center of the Tashir region, or Tas...
List of some of the major figures of the Ottoman Empire, including Osman I, its founder; Mehmed II who destroyed the Byzantine Empire and captured Constantinople, its capital, in 1453; and Suleyman I (the Magnificent) who took control of parts of Persia,
(redirected fromAleppo Province, Ottoman Empire) Dictionary Thesaurus Aleppo(əlĕpˈō)orAlep(əlĕpˈ), ArabicHaleb,city (2021 est. pop. 1,917,000), capital of Aleppo governorate, NW Syria. It is a commercial and industrial center located in a semidesert region where irrigation is...
Refounded as the “new Rome” by the emperor Constantine I in 330, it was endowed by him with the name Constantinople, the city of Constantine. The derivation from Byzantium is suggestive in that it emphasizes a central aspect of Byzantine civilization: the degree to which the empire’s ...