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Published: 18.11.2002.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Empires of Asia', 1.
  • Essays 'The Empires of Asia', 2.
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Empires of Asia
Section 1: Muslim Empires
- The Ottoman Empire lasted from about 1300 to 1922. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, a Turkish chieftain who founded a state in Anatolia, now Turkey, in the late 1200's.
- The Ottomans claimed to be the champions of Sunni Islam. In 1453, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
- The city, now called Istanbul, became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- By 1600, the Ottoman Empire formed a crescent around the Mediterranean extending from Hungary in eastern Europe through Palestine and Egypt to Algeria…

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