NOUN
- a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
How To Use Ottoman Empire In A Sentence
- The Turks of the Ottoman Empire were the first culture to celebrate the beauty of the tulip and to begin to cultivate and hybridize the flower.
- That was a moment when a defeated Ottoman Empire gave the victorious Europeans the power to divvy up the Middle East and to create new countries both for diasporan Jews and for the Arabs, who had been dominated by the Turks. Bloodlust
- In the early nineteenth century, Egypt was formed as a centralized state out of a province of the Ottoman Empire.
- His use of polychromatic tassels was a nice touch on scarves and cuffs and was Tibetan and Ottoman empire influenced.
- The Ottoman empire was collapsing, and lands taken from them would be divided up among the victorious powers.
- After the Ottoman Empire gained general control of the area in 1516, Lebanon continued to maintain a feudal system of rule by local chieftains.
- December 15th, 2009 at 5: 49 pm but there are pre-modern analogies to detroit. rome and constantinople were built to be huge cities, but collapsed to such an extent that vast expanses of officially “urban” zones were left fallow and had re-wilded. of course was only one part of the cycle, rome bounced back from its dark age nadir, and constantinople revived upon the rents received from the ottoman empire. urgs Says: Matthew Yglesias » Turning Detroit Around
- The Czar moved quickly to quell any other uprising, officially annexing the tribal heartlands and forcing thousands of murids, as well as entire clans, to flee to the Ottoman Empire.
- That the Ottoman Empire would eventually enter the war on the side of Germany and Austro-Hungary no one of intelligence doubted. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
- We were the ones that brought the country to its independence in 1923, by a treaty for dismembering the old Ottoman Empire.
