OTTOMAN TURKS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FACTS DETAILS ASIAN TOPICS MONGOLS THE SILK ROAD THE TURKS TAMERLANE OSMAN THE OTTOMAN TURKS SULTAN LEADER ENGLISH TRANSFORMATION MEANS SONS CENTRAL ASIA WAY ACROSS ANATOLIA SELJUK EMPIRE 18 DAYS REIGN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE TRANSPORTED SHIPS HILL BREACHED FORTRESS THE OTTOMANS CHANGED NAME THE GREAT CROSSROADS TRADE EAST AND WEST WEALTH THE MASTERS CLAIM VAST TERRITORY OTTOMAN ARMIES SERBS BULGARS EASTERN MAMELUKES ARABS EGYPT THE HOLY PERSIANS IN IRAQ RUSSIA ATTACKED VIENNA TWICE CLOSE THE FEAR TERRIBLE TURKS IN EUROPE KEPT SPAIN FAMOUS NAVAL BATTLE LEPANTO BOOKS CENTURIES LORD KINROSS ANDREW OTTOMAN EMPIRE LASTED ALMOST HEIGHT THE 15TH GREATEST POWER IN THE WORLD THE MIDDLE MEDITERRANEAN TURKS FEARED EUROPE THINGS WESTERN COUNTERPARTS SULTANS RULED HIGHER DEGREE RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE EUROPEAN MONARCHS TWENTY MODERN NATIONS THE GULF STATES SAUDI ARABIA ALGERIA EMBRACED CITIES SAREJEVO ALEXANDRIA RIVALS SAFAVID EMPIRE IRAN CONTEMPORARIES ROSE TAKING SHAPE PROTESTANTS CATHOLICS THE AGE OF DISCOVERY THE NEW WORLD THE TERRITORY SEIZED 100 YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE 400 YEARS ABLE HOLD ONTO HOLD ON LANDS HUNDRED THUS MOMENT EARLY HISTORY OF OTTOMAN DYNASTY AS ONE TURKISH PRINCIPALITIES SELJUK TURKS ENDURED DOCUMENTATION THE EARLY HISTORY OF KHAN KAYI TRIBE OGUZ TURKS SERVICE THE SULTAN RUM THE HEAD GAZI FORCE NUMBERING TRIBAL BANDS FACING BYZANTINE STRONGHOLDS NICOMEDIA LEADERSHIP SUBSEQUENTLY FOUNDER OSMANLI DYNASTY IN THE WEST DYNASTY WAS TO ENDURE REIGNS LIBRARY SMALL STATE NORTHWESTERN SHIFTING FRONTIER GOOD PASTURES AGRICULTURE SILK ROAD ENOUGH RISE WARRIORS MILITARISTIC STATE MONGOL DIVIDED INDEPENDENT GHAZI WEAK BYZANTINE EMPIRE CHIEF PAGAN TRIBE IN 12 BIRTH HIS FAMILY ARMY MERCENARIES CIVIL WARS MOBILIZED TRIBES HOLY WAR BYZANTIUM BALKAN SIEGE CONSTANTINOPLE IN 13 RATHER TAKEOVER LONGER CAPTURED BURSA IZNIK AMIRATE PLUNDER WAY OF LIFE GAVE OTTOMAN STATE MILITARY STATURE PROPORTION ORGANIZED POLITICALLY CENTRALIZED ADMINISTRATION SUBORDINATED NEEDS RAPID TERRITORIAL FELL YEAR OF OTTOMANS GROW DESCENDANTS WESTERN ASIA NORTHERN AFRICA POWERFUL NOMADIC CUSTOMS WITH THEM THE CENTRAL ASIA TRADITIONAL MIDDLE EASTERN EMPIRES LEARNED THE PEOPLE AREA GENERALLY SUFFERED DECLINED ECONOMY CHRISTIANS THE BALKANS PERIOD TO THE NORTH SOUTH SEALING THE END SERBIA ORHAN CROSSED THE DARDANELLES PERMANENT EUROPEAN MURAD ANNEXED SEAT OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT ADRIANOPLE THE BATTLE OF KOSOVO THE COST STREAM BAYEZID BULGARIA CRUSADERS THE DANUBE HUNGARY SUCCESS ATTRIBUTED THE LOCAL PEOPLE PREVIOUS THE PLAGUE DROUGHT SOME CITIES THE MIDDLE EAST POPULATION EPIDEMIC THE BLACK DEATH TAMERLAND CRUSHES RESPITE THREATS MAJOR SETBACK SAMARKAND IN CENTRAL ASIA ACHIEVEMENT CONQUEST ASIA MINOR TURKISH EMPIRE CAPTURE BAJAZET CRUSHED ANGORA AWAY DIED CAPTIVITY THE NEXT LEAVING DECADE COMPETED CONTROL OTTOMAN ANATOLIA ADVANCED FAR WEST THE AEGEAN PORT SMYRNA CRUSADER CASTLE MASSACRED PALACE GATES CAPITAL CLAVIJO POLICY TOWARD USURPATION DEFECTED EXTENT FRESH MURAT II PLUS TAKEN CREATION THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION FOURTEENTH CENTURY OSMANLI THE DISINTEGRATION OF SELJUK SULTANATE INSTABILITY CAUSED EMBRYONIC ON THE FRONTIERS THE ISLAMIC WORLD TERRITORIES EXPANSION CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE EASTERN CHRISTENDOM THE MAMLUK EMPIRE SIXTEENTH CENTURY CENTRAL THE INDIAN OCEAN STATUS WORLD POWER DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ORIGINAL WORK LINDA TROOPS SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE SERBIAN TIMUR FIFTEENTH CENTURY THE LAST OUTPOST ISTANBUL THE CAPITAL NEW EMPIRE SUNNI ISLAM GREEK MAGNIFICENT THE EMPIRE NORTH AFRICA REGIONS KURDISTAN DEATH SHOWING SIGNS OTTOMAN NAVY THE KEY BATTLE OF LEPANTO SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE SUCCESSION SHOOK COAST FOOTHOLD THE EUROPEAN TRIBUTE CHRISTIAN THE BEST CHILDREN TRAINED SOLDIERS BUREAUCRATS MURAT EDIRNE WHAT WAS LEFT HANDS EMPEROR DEPENDANT BATTLE KOSOVO PRINCE LAZAR MARKED INDEPENDENT SERBIA TO THIS DAY REVERE PRINCE LAZAR MARTYR NEVER FORGIVEN MEHMET THE CONQUEROR MEHMET II PAOLO VERONESE CONQUER THE CROWN JEWEL THE SIXTH ELEVATED OTTOMAN SULTANATE EMPIRE ADDING ALBANIA GREECE HERO JANOS HUNYADY THING STRANGLE BABY BROTHER VIEWED THREAT MEHMET CAMPAIGN MASTERED WEAPONS SUPPORT WHOM CONVERTED TO ISLAM TITLES CAPITA ALEXANDER COURTIERS READ PARTS BIOGRAPHY PORTRAIT PAINTED GENTILE BELLINI SLENDER NOSE DEEP PIERCING SPOKE PERSIAN HEBREW FLUENTLY CHRISTIANITY CONVERTING IMPACT ON WORLD ASIDE SCATTERED OUTPOSTS ALL THAT CUT OFF PERIODS TRUCE VENETIAN TRADERS COMMERCE BECOMING IMMEDIATELY THE MILITARY SEASON SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE WARSHIPS OVERLAND GREASED RUNNERS BOSPORUS INLET THE GOLDEN HORN BYPASS THE CHAIN BARRAGE FORTRESSES BLOCKED ENTRANCE THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SIEGE CONCLUSION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MILITARY ACTION THE TAKING CRITICAL EFFECT THE CAPTURE THE IMPERIAL SUPREME HIMSELF DIRECT SUCCESSOR AS IT REBUILDING THE CATHEDRAL OF HAGIA SOPHIA CONVERTED THE GREEK PHRASE POLIN BAGHDAD THE CENTER SUNNI ECCLESIASTICAL ORTHODOX THE PROTECTOR PATRIARCH CUSTOM FINALLY FALL OF