The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most powerful empires during the 16th and 17th century. The Ottoman Empire began out of small Turkish states that emerged in Asia during the collapse of the Seljuk Empire. The first phase of the Ottoman expansion took place under Sultan Osman I. He was a ruler of one of the smaller principalities and Osman and his warriors had achieved many military successes against the Byzantine Empire. His successor, Orhan helped expand their territories in northwestern Anatolia and in 1326 he captured the city of Bursa from the Byzantine Empire and made it the capital.
Over the next couple of centuries all of southeastern Europe had become under Ottoman control. With three successful military victories the Ottomans was transformed into a world power. The first of their military victories was the Siege of Constantinople. After the long siege in May of 1453, Mehmet II captured the capital of the Byzantine Empire and brought the end of Constantinople as a center of Christianity. Constantinople would then become the capital of the Ottoman Empire and with the help of Mehmet’s
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Gallipoli forms the northern bank of the Dardanelles that provides a sea route to Russia. Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula with the aim of capturing the Ottoman capital of Istanbul and cutting off the Ottomans from Germany. The Ottomans would win and both sides would lose over 200,000 soldiers. Because the Ottoman Empire had vast borders it was very vulnerable for attacks on any front of their border. In the winter of 1914-1915 Enver Pasha led the Ottomans to some early victories but those victories would not come without heavy loses and in the spring when the Russians countered attacked, his army was in no position to hold them off. Eventually the Russians pushed the Ottoman army east from Erzurum and Enver retired to
In 1453 the Ottomans took control of Constantinople, and effectively cut off direct European trade to East Asia. Because of this, in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, exploration in search of alternative routes became a key focus of Western European nations.
Turkey was allied with the Germans and knocking the Turks out of the war would be a step closer for the British to defeating Germany. If the Gallipoli campaign succeeded this would open up a new front which would be able to draw Central Power troops away from the Western and Eastern fronts and open up a new route to attack Germany and Austria-Hungry. This would tighten the encircling military grip round the Central Powers. If the campaign was successful it would greatly benefit the Russians, who were particularly hard-pressed at the time. By capturing the Dardanelles and Constantinople, the Allies would open up a supply route through the Black Sea and Russian merchant ships could move more freely between Russian Black sea ports and foreign markets.
"Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran, and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empire" (Dale 1). Everyone knows the Mediterranean, Iran, and South Asia because of modernization and technology. These regions are seen in newspapers and television for their current status, but not a lot of people have ever considered how they were back in the 15th century. The majority of our generation knows Istanbul, but what about Constantinople? The 15th century was the Gunpowder Empires era in which three major empires ruled the Mediterranean, Iran, and South Asia: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal. Even though the Mughals were not as successful as the Ottomans, they both share similarities in
In the 16th century, the Mesopotamia had served as an intermediate for trade between Europe, Africa, and Asia. It was also an important supplier on food goods on foreign trade, especially silk and cotton. Other than the Ottoman Empire who had control over it, they also had there competitive rivals, the Persian Safavids who also had control over it. The Persians Muslim faith clashed with the Ottoman’s devotion to Sunnism. Both groups had fought economically for the control over the western trade routes to the East. The Ottomans had captured Europe’s largest city, Constantinople, in May 1453. After it was captured, the Ottoman’s had renamed it Istanbul, as it became the city capital of The Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was one of the longest running empires in history, spanning 624 years. The women of the Ottoman empire were often limited to the household of their husband’s and held back by Ottoman lawmakers and authorities. The point of view of outsiders was varied, but there were both positive and negative views.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, a new empire, the Byzantine Empire, arose out of the eastern half of Byzantium. Byzantium stood partway along the straits between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea. It occupied the tip of a small peninsula, with a body of water to the South called the Sea of Marmara, which led to a passage called the Bosporus. The site that Constantine chose to be the new capital was a town called ...
Though one should consider the argument by some historians that the Byzantine Empire was really a continuation of the Roman empire and not in fact a new entity. The Byzantine Empire had been formed in Late Antiquity by the splitting of the Roman empire between the two heirs of Theodosius I. While the two halves retained some ties for all intents and purposes the two were independent entities after 395 CE. While the Western Empire continued to decline, the Byzantines actually flourished and by the 4th century included the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia (Asia Minor), the Levant, and parts of North Africa including Egypt. While Byzantium’s power fluctuated, especially during conflicts with the Islamic civilization and during internal wars, for the majority of its history the Byzantine Empire was a strong political, cultural and economic power in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Significant conflicts in the 11th century caused the Byzantine Empire to decline and this decline was made worse by the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 by the Venetian Crusaders. After this defeat, Byzantium was split into two portions and remained so until 1261 when it was reunified. However, the damage was done and internal conflict and civil war continued to plague the Empire until it ultimately was destroyed by the Ottoman Turks in
In their times The Mughal and Ottoman empires were some of the greatest and most successful empires of all time. Both empires were lead by strong rulers, Suleiman in the Ottoman Empire and Akbar in the Mughal. However, the Mughal empire failed due to the weak successors that could not unite the huge empire after Akbar’s demise leading the empire to fall apart.
The late eleventh century brought the Byzantine Empire new increasing threats from various sides. The most prominent of all were the Seljuk Turks who had begun to advance towards the very heartland of the Byzantine Empire. Soon the Turks stood at the wake of controlling Anatolia, the most prosperous of cities in the Byzantine Empire. Not too far along Jerusalem returned to Sunni control as the Turks succeeded in capturing the Holy City. The Seljuk Turks continued to advance.
The Ottoman Empire were Muslims and included Hungary, Syria, Egypt, Bulgaria, and Albania, and they marched on land. The Ottoman Empire is said to have first appeared somewhere around the 1300’s, and can be related to the decline of the Byzantine Empire. They began conquering Christian lands and by the late 1600’s all Christians were afraid of the “terrible Turk”. It is no wonder that many other people were afraid of the Ottoman Empire since they seem to be really rather powerful and they conquered a lot of land. It was in the 1330’s when the Morroccan Abu Abdallah Ibn Battuta passed through Constantinople and became impressed with the Ottomans who seemed to be gaining power rather quickly, he noticed that they had close to 100 forts and
Though, the use of superlatives is often incorporated with regards to understanding and defining many geopolitical structures that have existed since the dawn of tim. It is not an exaggeration to state that the Ottoman Empire was one of the longest lived, richest, and most successful empires that the world has ever seen. Beginning in 1299 and lasting up until the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1922, the 623 year span of time in nearly continual power that this Empire was able to exercise was unmatched at that time; either within Europe or elsewhere in the World. The key to this great wealth and power was due to the fact that the Ottoman Empire existed upon the nexus of trade between Asia and Europe. Occupying this important chokepoint, the Ottomans were able to derive a great deal of riches based upon control and management of the trade that flowed between that of the East and West.
The Tanzimat: Reform in the Ottoman Empire. During its prime, the Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most powerful empires in the entire world. Unfortunately for the Ottomans, various problems arose, and eventually the empire started to decline. This resulted in a period of reform, known as the Tanzimat.
The Ottoman Empire reached the peak of its power in the 1500s. While other empires were experiencing their downfalls, the Ottoman Empire’s power seemed to be increasing. In fact, this empire can be ranked as the strongest power due to its tactical internal organization of power, minorities, and religion, due to its physical expansion which provided more resources, more advancements, and more people to support the empire, and due to its large military strength that provided security, reduced rebellion, and challenged the other powers.
Let us take a look at one facet of the Ottoman Empire. The Empire The Ottoman Empire, historically referred to as the Turkish Empire, was a Sunni Islamic state founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia. This used to be a powerful multinational and multilingual empire controlling much of southeast Europe, western Asia, Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.
The city of Istanbul was originally known as Constantinople back in the time of the Byzantine Empire Days. Then, in 1453, Constantinople became part of Ottoman Empire and over the years, the name of the city was changed to Istanbul. Since both empires occupied Istanbul at one point, its leaders brought over many rich and diverse cultures, ideas, and many architectural designs. This beautiful city is separated by the Bosphorus Strait which is the main waterway connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, that separates Europe from Asia.