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The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Many historians see the Ottoman Empire as the greatest of the world’s historic empires, not because it controlled the largest area, but because it lasted for the longest time – for around seven centuries. It is generally dated from 1301, when a minor Anatolian princeling named Osman is said to have defeated a Byzantine army and taken a small bite of the territory of the dying Byzantine empire. It formally ended in 1923, when Kemal Ataturk proclaimed the new Turkish republic. In...
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