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	Ottoman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Ottoman Empire was established by the tribe of Kinsik Oghuz Turks, in western Anatolia and was ruled by the Osmanlı dynasty, the descendants of those Turks.
		In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman Empire was among the world's most powerful political entities, with the powers of eastern Europe constantly threatened by its steady advance through the Balkans and the southern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Ottomans claimed that the source of the inter-ethnic conflicts should be sought within their dynamics and the sources that were supporting the conflicts with hidden goals, more than the policies of the state.
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	Ottoman Empire
		Early historiography of the empire was based largely on analysis of Ottoman military victories and defeats, while current approaches take a wider perspective, the scope of which includes the social dynamics of territorial growth and dissolution, and the examination of economic factors and their role in the empire's eventual stagnation and decline.
		The core of the Ottoman Empire, the Kayi tribe of Oğuz Turks, was part of the westward Turkic migrations from Central Asia that began during the 10th century.
		The Empire faced military challenges in defending itself against foreign invasion and occupation: Egypt, for instance, was occupied by the French in 1798, while Cyprus was loaned to the British in 1878 in exchange of Britain's favors at the Congress of Berlin following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
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	Encyclopedia: Ottoman Sultan
		Sultan Murat I Murad I (1319 (or 1326) – 1389; nick-named Hüdavendiğar, the God-like one) was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire from 1359 to 1389.
		Mustafa I Mustafa I (1592 – January 20, 1639) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.
		The Ottoman Empire (sometimes referred to in diplomatic circles as the "Sublime Porte" or simply as "the Porte") was a Turkish state that comprised Turkey, part of the Middle East, North Africa and south-eastern Europe in the 14th to 20th centuries, established by the Seljuq Turkish tribe of Söğüt in western Anatolia.
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	Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ottoman Empire was established by a tribe of Oghuz Turks in western Anatolia and was ruled by the Osmanlı dynasty, the descendants of those Turks.
		In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman Empire was among the world's most powerful political entities, with the powers of Europe constantly threatened by its steady advance through the Balkans and the southern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Ottomans claim that the source of the inter-ethnic conflicts should be sought within their dynamics and the sources that were supporting the conflicts with hidden goals.
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	Ottoman Empire Summary
		With the Mongol Empire extending to west, the Kayı became a puppet and vassal of the Il Khanate of the Mongol Empire.
		According to Ottoman understanding, the state's primary responsibility was to defend and extend the land of the Muslims and to ensure security and harmony within its borders within the overarching context of orthodox sunni Islamic practice and dynastic sovereignty.
		Ultimately, the Ottoman Empire's relatively high degree of tolerance on the level of ethnicity proved to be one of its greatest strengths in integrating the new regions until the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire.
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	ipedia.com: Ottoman Empire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish state in the Middle East that comprised Anatolia, part of Southwest Asia, North Africa and south-eastern Europe in the 14th to 20th centuries, established by a tribe of Oghuz Turks in western Anatolia.
		The Empire reached its apex under Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century when it stretched from the Persian Gulf in the east to Hungary in the northwest; and from Egypt in the south to the Caucasus in the north.
		For centuries, the Ottoman Empire was the refuge of the Jews of Europe.
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	Brief History of the Ottoman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Ottomans then proceeded to their main objective and in 1453, under Mehmet II (1451-1481), they conquered Constantinople, which is why Mehmet is often considered the real founder of the Ottoman Empire.
		The Ottoman Empire was obviously multi-religious and its rulers devised the system called millet by which each religious community had its own head and retained jurisdiction in certain areas of social life, mainly within the scope of what is known in the Western world as civil law.
		The Ottoman Empire was beset in the Near East, where its Arabian dependencies rebelled and the British occupied Jerusalem in 1917.
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	Ottoman Empire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The early phase of Ottoman expansion took place under Osman I, Orkhan, Murad I, and Beyazid I at the expense of the Byzantine Empire, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
		The Ottoman siege of Constantinople was lifted at the appearance of Timur, who defeated and captured Beyazid in 1402.
		The first serious blow by Europe to the empire was the naval defeat of Lepanto (1571; see Lepanto, battle of), inflicted on the fleet of Selim II by the Spanish and Venetians under John of Austria.
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		In spite of internal fighting over succession and attacks from the Isma'ilis, the Yemeni state retained its independence until 1539 when it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and became a province within the Ottoman empire.
		De facto independence was achieved during the first world war and actual independence with the fall of the Ottoman empire after the first world war.
		Following the dissolution of the Ottoman empire Imam Yahya was left in control of the Yemen.
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	Ottoman Empire - Crystalinks
		The empire they built was the largest and most influential of the Muslim empires of the modern period, and their culture and military expansion crossed over into Europe.
		While historians like to talk about empires in terms of growth and decline, the Ottomans were a force to be reckoned with, militarily and culturally, right up until the break-up of the empire in the first decades of this century.
		The Ottoman Empire was a vast state founded in the late 13th century by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918.
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	The empire from 1807 to 1920 (from Ottoman Empire) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The triumph of the antireform coalition that had overthrown Selim III was interrupted in 1808 when the surviving reformers within the higher bureaucracy found support among the ayan of Rumelia (Ottoman possessions in the Balkans), who were worried by possible threats to their own position.
		Extending from the Comoé River in the west to the Togo Mountains in the east, the Asante empire was active in the slave trade in the 18th century and unsuccessfully resisted British penetration in the 19th.
		As this empire grew by conquering lands of the Byzantine Empire and beyond, it came to include at the height of its power all of Asia Minor; the countries of the Balkan Peninsula; the islands of the...
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	OTTOMAN WEB SITE - 700th Anniversary of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE
		The war was made in Teselya region and the Ottoman Army commanded by Ghazi Ethem Pasha defeated the Greeks in 1897.
		There were internal conflicts going on and The Ottomans had to have accept the Austrian domination in Bosnia except the Yeni Pazar County 1908.
		The East Roumelia and Macedonia were left to the Ottomans conditionally, and the condition was; a governmental restoration in these two regions.
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	The Middle East
		Ottoman Empire is the Turkic empire founded in 1300 by Othman in present-day Turkey.
		Joining with Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, the Ottoman empire was split up after the war and its territories were either granted independence or were given over to the victorious European states under the League of Nations mandate system.
		The modern state of Turkey emerged from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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	Writers Creek » History
		The Ottoman empire dates from the late 13th century until 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor states in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East.
		The centre of the empire was in what is now Turkey and the Balkans, but after periods of continuous expansion, its reach extended from present-day Hungary and the Ukraine to most of the Middle East and North Africa.
		Ultimately, the Ottoman Empire’s relatively high degree of tolerance for ethnic differences proved to be one of its greatest strengths in integrating the new regions until the rise of nationalism (this non-assimilative policy became a weakness during the dissolution of the empire that neither the first or second parliaments could successfully address).
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		Today's tensions are the result of the region's absorption into the Ottoman Empire, which led to the extraordinary dispersion and intermixture of ethnic groups in Balkan and Danubian Europe.
		Premodern state-formation in the Balkans was short-circuited by the Ottoman Turkish conquest of the region during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.
		As the Ottoman Empire began to break down in the eighteenth century, the ideology of European nationalism penetrated the Balkans in support of the Balkan Christians' claim to liberation from increasingly oppressive Turkish rule.
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	KOPRULU/VELES (YUGOSLAVIA) OTTOMAN GARRISON'S RESPONSE TO THE 1909 RECIDIVIST UPRISING IN ISTANBUL
		On the surface, the reasons were the "integrity" and salvation of both empires, the Ottoman, and the reincarnated Russian under the "soviet" rubric.
		The minorities of the Ottoman empire, receiving generous political, educational, monetary and spiritual aid from various outside entities, including the Russians, began to seek political and economic autonomy or outright independence.
		During this period, the calendar in use within the Ottoman empire was "Mali," the "day of year" portion of which had been officially adjusted on 1 March 1917 to coincide with the Gregorian style by the Istanbul Government.
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	NITLE Arab World Project
		This was a period of transformation in the empire, marked by a number of external pressures that led to some shrinkage of borders and greater pressure on the Ottoman Empire from external economic factors, as well as some internal rebellion.
		There is an extended discussion of Egypt’s Muhammad Ali and his challenges to Ottoman authority and its results, as well as a number of internal legal and structural changes that occurred during this period, most notably reforms in the status of Muslims and non-Muslims and some changes in the legal status of women.
		An understanding of the Ottoman Empire, particularly from 1798 onwards, is essential to an understanding of the Arab World today, as all the territories in the Arab World, with the exception of Morocco, were under Ottoman rule.
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	Chapter 4<BR>Russian and British Interests in Western Asia
		Russia decisively defeated the Ottoman empire in 1828-29 and the victory caused the Russians to revise their policy towards the Ottomans which heretofore had been very aggressive.
		If he succeeded in that, the Ottoman empire would cease to exist and all Europe was fearful of the struggle that would ensue for the remains.
		In 1829 the Tsar decided that the dissolution of the Ottoman empire would be more dangerous to Russia than its continued existence and the disadvantages of such an event would far outweigh the benefits of any possible territorial gains.
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	Mesopotamian Campaign information - Search.com
		The Mesopotamian Campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the World War I fought between Allied Powers represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from the British Raj, and Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.
		Ottoman interests were to maintain the status quo.
		By early March, the British were at the outskirts of Baghdad, and the Baghdad garrison, under the direct command of the Governor of Baghdad province Khalil Pasha, tried to stop them.
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	The Ottoman constitution, 1876 (from Ottoman Empire) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The empire from 1807 to 1920 > The Ottoman constitution, 1876
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		Extremely fine, handsome carpets—of wool pile on a foundation of silk or wool, having floral patterning, often with schemes of large or small circular medallions—and comparable prayer rugs were made for the court, possibly at Bursa in the 16th century.
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	Dissolution of the empire (from Ottoman Empire) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		British order of knighthood instituted in 1917 by King George V to reward both civilian and military wartime service, although currently the honour is bestowed for meritorious service to the government in peace as well as for gallantry in wartime.
		independent principality of the fragmented Byzantine Empire, founded in 1204 by Theodore I Lascaris (1208–22); it served as a political and cultural centre from which a restored Byzantium arose in the mid-13th century under Michael VIII Palaeologus.
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		Constantinople became the capital of the Byzantine Empire-the eastern part of the Roman Empire, which survived the fall of Rome in the 5th century-and subsequently developed into the center of the Greek Orthodox Christian world.
		In 1453 Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, who made it the capital of the Ottoman Empire and called it Istanbul.
		The Ottoman Empire grew weaker as the sultans became less effective leaders.
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	AllRefer.com - Ottoman Empire (Turkish And Ottoman History) - Encyclopedia
		Ottoman Empire[ot´umun] Pronunciation Key, vast state founded in the late 13th cent.
		by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918.
		Modern Turkey formed only part of the empire, but the terms "Turkey" and "Ottoman Empire" were often used interchangeably.
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	PCA - Documents: Eritrea-Yemen Arbitration - Chapter IV
		This sovereignty is further characterized by Yemen as having remained unaffected by and having survived the Ottoman annexation of Yemen, in spite of the Sublime Porte's having declared Yemen to be one of the vilayets falling under Ottoman rule.
		In the second place, the distinction in terms of jurisdiction which existed under the Ottoman Empire between those islands administered from the African coast and the other islands administered from the Arabian coast constitutes a historic fact to be taken into consideration.
		The sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire over both coasts of the Red Sea is undisputed up to 1880 and this remained the case with regard to the eastern, or Arabian, coast until the First World War.
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		The process of disintegration afflicting the Ottoman Empire was of such gravity that it produced a traumatic anxiety among Ottoman leaders.
		Continual losses of territory on the fringes of the empire had created among the Turks a siege mentality, that is, the feeling that the empire was encircled by enemies.
		The dimensions of the sense of loss of self-worth and of meaning, and the fact that the Ottoman Empire stood at the doorstep of defeat led rapidly to desperate actions that were "insane" and reckless.
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	Foreign Affairs - The Balkans' Lethal Nationalisms - William W. Hagen
		Today's tensions are the result of the region's absorption into the Ottoman Empire, which led to the extraordinary dispersion and intermixture of ethnic groups in Balkan and Danubian Europe.
		Premodern state-formation in the Balkans was short-circuited by the Ottoman Turkish conquest of the region during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.
		As the Ottoman Empire began to break down in the eighteenth century, the ideology of European nationalism penetrated the Balkans in support of the Balkan Christians' claim to liberation from increasingly oppressive Turkish rule.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19990701faessay992/william-w-hagen/the-balkans-lethal-nationalisms.html (752 words)

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